We have known Pierre Carles as a slayer of the dominant media, a critic of a system, with sometimes contested methods. With “Farc Guerilla, the future has a story”, he tries his hand at an intimate and committed documentary journal. Intimate first, because he speaks in voice-over to his father-in-law, Duni Kuzmanich, a Colombian filmmaker who died in 2008. The latter was the first to make a film on the guerrilla war without denigrating it. Committed too, because it collects the words of members of Farc between 2012 and 2022 while paying tribute to two French activist filmmakers, Bruno Muel and Jean-Pierre Sergent, who came to film a documentary in the 1960s on these guerrillas and communist guerrillas.
Consider a peaceful continuation of the struggle
Its hybrid form alternates interviews with the Farc, including one with Frenchwoman Natalie Mistral, and excerpts from “Canaguaro,” Kuzmanich’s work recounting the 1948 assassination of Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, a favorite left-wing politician at the time. he presidential election the following year, as well as the rebellion that followed. There are also images of negotiations for a peace process. Because in 2015 and 2016 an agreement is emerging with the Colombian government, ratifying the disarmament and return to civilian life of the rebels.
It is both the possibility of looking towards the future and of considering a peaceful continuation of the fight for greater social justice. It is also an opportunity to take stock of their fight. There, the filmmaker once again becomes the critic of the dominant media by transposing his analytical grid to Colombia. The question of the representation of the Farc and the accusation of narcoterrorism repeated over and over for decades by the media has partly drowned out their message and tarnished the legitimacy of their struggle. Pierre Carles tries to set the record straight. His anyway. By proposing a counter-discourse that makes the Farc fighters against the oligarchy and the predation of wealth.
Farc guerrilla, the future has a story, by Pierre Carles, 2:22 a.m., France, in theaters December 11.
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