The real face of France
Directed by Jean-Robert Viallet
What if economic and social change had created a deep divide between increasingly affluent big cities and the increasingly fragile rest of the country? What if France had changed, profoundly?
France has changed so much in the last thirty years that nobody knows where we're going anymore. For a year, we went to meet you, in the four corners of France. Thanks to researchers in social geography, economics and contemporary history, we've come to understand that France is radically split in two. A gulf separates the 25 metropolises where 40% of the French live, and the rest of the «socially fragile» territory. France's real challenge is not to succeed in globalization, but to bridge this divide.
Directed by: Jean-Robert Viallet
Written by: Christophe Nick, Hugues Nancy and Jean-Robert Viallet
Production: YAMI 2 - Christophe Nick
Broadcaster: France 3
Year of release: 2016
Duration: 90 min
Auscultating the broken faces of the abandoned working classes, «The real face of France» is a warning shot that we take in the face, disarmed. - Les Inrockuptibles
From this journey to the heart of the territories, Jean-Robert Viallet and Hugues Nancy have brought back a documentary as moving as it is edifying on these forgotten people of globalization, to whom here, with force, they give a face and a voice. - Le Monde
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