Feminist Riposte, a powerful documentary on splicers, is finally a masterpiece in theaters

This chronicle, designed for makes you want to go to the moviesI imagined it for movies like Feminist response.

These films that make us experience emotions ranging from empathy to the sisterhood Passing through indignation. These movies you come out of full of a I want to livefrom keep fightingfrom us gather and be proud of us.

feminist sisters : Feminist response It is made for you.

Feminist answer, what is it about?

Élise in Brest, Alexia in Saint-Etienne, Cécile in Compiègne or even Jill in Marseille: they are thousands to denounce gender-based violence, harassment in the street and the macho observations they suffer every day.

At night, armed with white sheets and black paint, they glue messages of support to victims And slogans against femicides.

Some are longtime feminists, others have never been activists, but all are rebelling against the violence that is disrupting their lives.

Sexism is also everywhere.

A film-collage

The collages are silent. However, every feminist knows thisthey emit loud cries.

They cry out the truths that the oppressors to denycomplaint unpunished crimes and make it audible the voice of those who are systematically deprived of it. Thus, following the gluers to the four corners of France in this documentary, the filmmakers have somehow created a kind of grand collage feminist collective hear and see voices, opinions, intimate and political trajectories gluers.

While the black-painted A4 sheets are scattered around France, risking being ripped off at any moment, Feminist response acts like a bookbinder putting them together. In this, the film does extraordinary good. It reminds us that, even if at times we are discouraged by the size and difficulties of the struggle against patriarchy, we are not alone. We have sisters everywhere.

Behind the power of collages, the complexity and richness of the glueers’ voices

To achieve a topical and challenging workit took sensitivity, feminist commitment and a determination ethics by Marie Perrennes and Simon Depardon.

The latter do not film the activists alone, in front of the camera, as happens in many documentaries, but they always frame them. together. Thus, in addition to the images of demonstrations to show the extent of the movementthe movie is full of moments of exchanges collective. We witness testimonies, debates exciting, rewarding, divisive and sometimes shocking among activists.

A powerful and necessary work

Before the richness of these exchanges ephemeral which the directors (finally) give space to keep track of and the share on big screenwe necessarily think of them dramatic absence in the rest of the public space.

Why is it so rare to hear from women talk about feminismexchanges of testimonials And terms of action ?

If all these questions arise, it is to better remind us how much Feminist response it is necessary And as beautiful as the fight he films.

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