The Notebook is covering the NYFF with an on-going correspondence between critic Doug Dibbern and editor Daniel Kasman.Above: The Monopoly of Violence.Hey, Danny,Great to hear from you. It’s comforting to learn that your own feelings about this year’s festival mirror my own. Like you, I always love the months of September and October because the festival and its press screenings represent, to me, the traditional highpoint for a sense of a cinephile community here in the city: I always feel a rush standing in those long, snaking lines outside the Walter Reade, seeing old friends and acquaintances, waving to each other across that vast auditorium, recognizing the faces of nerds I barely know, and always dumbstruck by the hundreds of faces of other critics and journalists and industry professionals whose faces I’ve never seen before.One thing about those annual reunions I feel most...
- 9/22/2020
- MUBI
The Bureau Sales has launched sales on documentary “The Monopoly of Violence,” David Dufresne’s timely examination of police violence. The film was selected recently by Cannes’ parallel section Directors’ Fortnight.
Filmcoopi has picked up rights to the film in Switzerland, and O Brother has acquired rights for Benelux. Jour De Fête will release the film in France at the end of September.
In the film, Dufresne looks at how “as anger and resentment grow in the face of social inequalities, many citizen-led protests are being repressed with an ever-increasing violence,” according to a statement. The film “gathers a panel of citizens to question, exchange and confront their views on the social order, and the legitimacy of the use of force by the state.”
Dufresne said: “All countries around the world are faced with police violence. For democracies, it has become a crucial concern for their own survival.”
The film...
Filmcoopi has picked up rights to the film in Switzerland, and O Brother has acquired rights for Benelux. Jour De Fête will release the film in France at the end of September.
In the film, Dufresne looks at how “as anger and resentment grow in the face of social inequalities, many citizen-led protests are being repressed with an ever-increasing violence,” according to a statement. The film “gathers a panel of citizens to question, exchange and confront their views on the social order, and the legitimacy of the use of force by the state.”
Dufresne said: “All countries around the world are faced with police violence. For democracies, it has become a crucial concern for their own survival.”
The film...
- 7/13/2020
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
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