×Close C est l une des plus belles sections du Festival de Cannes qui vient de dévoiler sa sélection pour l édition 2021.
Revisiter l histoire du cinéma: telle est l ambition de la section Cannes Classics qui offre chaque année le meilleur des copies restaurées. Parmi les merveilles annoncées et détaillées dans le communiqué officiel, notons la projection en présence de l actrice Irène Jacob de l un des plus beaux films de tous les temps, «La Double vie de Véronique» de Krzysztof Kieślowski, quatre documentaires-événements sur Jeremy Thomas, Satoshi Kon, Luis Buñuel et Yves Montand ou encore la redécouverte de la réalisatrice-actrice japonaise Kinuyo Tanaka.
Award-winning director Raoul Peck effectively takes on the role and responsibility of a history teacher with "Exterminate All the Brutes," a four-part HBO Max mini-series examining "the exploitative and genocidal aspects of European colonialism from America to Africa and its impact on society today.
Caisa Ankarsparre, center, in Exterminate All the Brutes. | Velvet Film / David Koskas via HBO
Raoul Peck’s new four-part HBO series
Exterminate All the Brutes is a powerful, well-illustrated essay on racism. Peck skillfully tours us through twelve painful centuries of prejudice-based inhumanity toward the goal of wealth accumulation. Each of his episodes is about an hour long.
Peck’s sometimes quite personal, subjective arguments, stunning photography, florid dioramas, and ample historical data are breathtaking and persuasive. The sweep of his observations shines a bright light on the dark side of history. The use of Joseph Conrad’s quote from
Chris Vognar April 7, 2021Updated: April 7, 2021, 6:57 pm
Caisa Ankarsparre stars in the HBO essay documentary “Exterminate All the Brutes.” Photo: Velvet Film / David Koskas , Velvet Film / David Koskas
The imperative “Exterminate all the brutes!” comes from Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness,” the ultimate novel about colonialism. The words were borrowed by Swedish author Sven Lindqvist for the title of his 1992 book about Europe’s dark history in Africa and, now, by Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck for his daunting four-hour HBO documentary on colonialism and genocide.
Extremely ambitious, deftly acidic, Peck’s “Exterminate All the Brutes” available to stream 9 p.m. Wednesday, April 7, and Thursday, April 8, with two episodes each night takes us from the Spanish Inquisition to the age of Trump, from the Native American genocide to the Holocaust, in examining the history of European and American subjugation of nonwhite people around the globe.