Socialism's honeymoon ends in a three-year headache nobody asked for.
A documentary drama retelling the shift of Mitterand's policy. In May 1981, F.Mitterrand is elected President of the Republic, after more than twenty years in the opposition. He wants to change the life; he believes in the supremacy of politics over economics. He wants it to be fast and executes his programme to realise the socialist transformation. Two years later, Pierre Mauroy and Jacques Delors introduce an unprecedented austerity plan and open the parenthesis of austerity... that would never be closed.
Acting
Philippe Magnan's uncanny Mitterrand — all silk and steel.
Production
Seamless archival integration that blurs then and now.
Director
Serge Moati
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Serge Moati cast himself as narrator, making this arguably cinema's most elaborate 'I was there' flex.
The 'Changer la vie' slogan became ironic shorthand for unfulfilled leftist promise in French political discourse.
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