Monopoly of Violence

[Available Feb. 1 via streaming on MUBI.] David Dufresne's award-winning, powerful, eye-opening, thought-provoking, disturbing, 86-minute, 2020 French documentary that examines the use of violence in response to violence, what is considered violent, and the nature of police violence, and it consists of video footage shot by freelance journalists and protesters in France during the yellow vest movement between Nov. 2018 and Feb. 2020, commentary by victims who discuss assaults by police and police who discuss reaction to the video clips, and interview snippets with chauffeur Patrice Philippe, writer Alain Damasio, sociologists Fabien Jobard and Sebastian Roché, reporter Michel Forst, military officer Bertrand Cavallier, historians (such as Mathilde Larrère, Vanessa Codaccioni, and Ludivine Bantigny), Secretary General of Synergy Office Patrice Ribeiro, National Secretary of Interior Anthony Caillé, advocates William Bourdon and Arié Alimi, professor Monique Chemillier-Gendreau, decorator Vanessa Langard, Secretary National Alliance of Police Benoît Barret, stay-home mothers Manon Retourné and Myriam Ayad, journalist Taha Bouhafs, plumber Sébastien Maillet, psychotherapist Rachida Sriti, ethnographer Romain Huët, driver Gwendal Leroy, and social worker Mélanie Ngoyé Gahamb.
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