{"id":26171,"date":"2017-09-13T13:22:53","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T11:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nihrff.de\/filme-2017-those-who-make-revolution-halfway-only-dig-their-own-graves\/"},"modified":"2024-07-19T15:27:49","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T13:27:49","slug":"films-2017-those-who-make-revolution-halfway-only-dig-their-own-graves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nihrff.de\/en\/films-2017-those-who-make-revolution-halfway-only-dig-their-own-graves\/","title":{"rendered":"Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Ceux qui font les r\u00e9volutions \u00e0 moiti\u00e9 n’ont fait que se creuser un tombeau<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
DIRECTORS: <\/strong>Mathieu Denis, Simon Lavoie   COUNTRY: <\/strong>Canada   YEAR: <\/strong>2016   LANGUAGE(S): <\/strong>French   SUBTITLES: <\/strong>English   RUNNING TIME: <\/strong>183 min  <\/div>\n\n\n\n

SECTION:<\/strong> International Forum 2017<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

SCREENINGS <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday, 03.10., 5.00 p.m., kommkino, Q&A with Mathieu Denis<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SYNOPSIS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Different picture sizes, blocks of text, and cuts to news channels, documentary footage and re-enacted scenes: This feature uses all the registers of avant-garde filmmaking, but still manages to be a gripping film about the meanderings (and errings) of radical protest forms. Inspired by the student demos of 2012 in Canada \u2013 that triggered the “Maple Spring” \u2013 the directors use the language of radical cinema to paint a tense, depressing and profoundly ambivalent picture of radicalism.  
The film follows four radical left-wing activists who employ vandalism and terror to foment an uprising against capitalism, succeeding both in making their anger understandable but also in questioning their methods and goals.
\u201cIn the opening sequence, four twentysomethings, under cover of darkness, deface a row of commercial billboards to read, \u201cPeople do not see yet that they are miserable. We will show them.\u201d Working under the aliases Klas Batalo (Gabrielle Tremblay), Ordinne Nuovo (Emmanuelle Lussier-Martinez), Tumulto (Laurent Belanger), and Guitizia (Charlotte Aubin), they form their own underground commune to do just that, all while maintaining a brutally austere lifestyle in line with their values. Living collectively off the cash Batalo earns as a transgender prostitute, they barely have enough money for food, much less a political operation, but their anger and desperation breeds a surprising resourcefulness.\u201d (Variety, Scott Tobias)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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