The Monopoly of Violence - A Big World Pictures release

Director: David Dufresne
Country: France
Year: 2020
Running time: 86 min
In French with English subtitles

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As anger and resentment grow in the face of social inequalities, many citizen-led protests are being repressed with an ever-increasing violence. In THE MONOPOLY OF VIOLENCE, David Dufresne 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.

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PLAYDATES

10/11/22 New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM

10/25/22 Connecticut College, New London, CT

10/27, 30/22 Cornell Cinema, Ithaca, NY

10/31/22 Carleton College, Northfield, MN

11/3/22 Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, VA

2/16/23 DeBartolo Center for the Performing Arts, Notre Dame, IN

2/25-26/23 Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI

3/2/23 Univ. of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA

3/14/23 College of St. Benedict & St. John's Univ., St. Joseph, MN

3/23/23 Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA

3/28/23 Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA

4/4/23 Georgia Gwinnett College, Lawrenceville, GA

REVIEWS

“As significant in its way as the founding film of cinema verité, Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin’s 1961 Chronicle of a Summer.”
– J. Hoberman, ArtForum

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