Encirclement ( L'encerclement ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.0 Import - Switzerland ]

Switzerland released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: Multi-lingual ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), English ( Subtitles ), French ( Subtitles ), German ( Subtitles ), Greek ( Subtitles ), Italian ( Subtitles ), Japanese ( Subtitles ), Portuguese ( Subtitles ), Spanish ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: There are texts that with time become indispensable. One such is 'La pens e unique', published by Ignacio Ramonet in 'Le Monde diplomatique' in January 1995. It is the basic inspiration behind Richard Brouillette's film. The title of this film-saga, which is expressionist in its musical punctuation and at the same time Calvinist and anti-spectacular in black and white, is programmatic: L'ENCERCLEMENT - LA DEMOCRATIE DANS LES RETS DU NEOLIBERALISME. The filmmaker, who spent twelve years making the film, and who is also its producer, script writer, montage specialist and translator, has put together a fresco of thirteen specialists from areas relating to capitalist and neo-liberal phenomena and their avatars. It is an erudite performance of articulacy and active intelligence. Richard Brouillette's commitment is to make this learning accessible. The narrative is organised into two parts and ten chapters; the texts, which lead to particular transitions, and Eric Morin's powerful music punctuate the unfolding of the montage, which has been put together like tiles. Each intervention comments upon and critiques the previous one and develops what has already been set out in terms of concepts and reflections.The filmmaker assembles thought and fragments of knowledge, piece by piece. Archives are integrated at certain moments, anchoring clarified phenomena in layers of time. These phenomena cannot be reduced to the current wor...Encirclement ( L'encerclement )