Rupture (2016) ***

Five hours of interviews with activists who were arrested or injured during the 2012 student revolt in Montreal. Similar in approach to Claude Lanzmann's "Shoah" (1985). The testimonies are completely unexpected. Very personal. Very sincere. Suprisingly, there is very little old-fashioned Marxist slogans and cliches. Instead, the activists simply talk about what happened to them, how they felt then and how they feel now. It's documentary cinema at its most intimate and individualistic. The ultimate cinematic expression of "the personal is political".