August 8, 1999

Pas vu pas pris (1999) **

Directed by Pierre Carles. With Pierre Carles, Karl Zero and Anne Sinclair. A biting expose denouncing the hypocrisy of the French media establishment. Everything had started with a private conversation between a media mogul and a government minister, accidently recorded by a camera. Then came a simple TV report, consisting of interviews with top Gallic media executives trying to explain why they had never aired that conversation. And finally we have this film, which deals with the deliberate suppression of that report by all the French TV stations. Ironically, the original conversation was actually quite innocent. Once again, "it's not the crime, it's the cover-up".