August 8, 1999

A mort la mort (1999) **

Directed by Romain Goupil. With Romain Goupil, Marianne Denicourt and Dani. Pretty cruel, but not particularly funny satire about the old French radicals from May 68 events in Paris. They are presented as Militants Anonymous, forced to cope with their addiction to mass demonstrations, petitions and other types of organized protest. The humor doesn't work - it's often too creepy (or just plain bizarre), but there are some nicely twisted bits of pseudo-feminist objectification of the male body.