Synopsis
Two months before May 68, the program Dim Dam Dom focuses on the growing revolt among students. Romain Goupil, 16 years old, expelled from school, discusses with Marguerite Duras. Why do we engage in politics at such a young age? Does politics prevent you from working well? What is politics?
A word from Tënk
How to create a cult sequence? Put Romain Goupil, 16, a figure of the student revolt of May '68, face to face with Marguerite Duras, 54, already possessing the presence for which she is known. For the French monthly magazine Dim Dam Dom, Duras was tasked with interviewing different "characters" of French society; a seven-year-old child, a prison guard, a teenage political agitator…
In this utterly delightful sequence, Duras questions this young man with sharp thoughts and a cherubic face with mischief and a half-amused, half-moved respect. Interwoven with images of the protest movements that were engulfing high schools on the eve of May, the interview captures the electrifying political atmosphere and its echoes across different generations. Duras is evidently sympathetic to the revolt, capturing its promising destructive energy.
Because Duras embodies that too; political consciousness, anti-colonialism, communism, the revolt of the oppressed. Always, the small against the Pacific.
Naomie Décarie-Daigneault
Tënk Artistic Director
To delve deeper, watch Mourir à trente ans by Romain Goupil.
