About the Author
Nicolas Journet holds a journalism degree from CUEJ Strasbourg and completed the Screenwriting Workshop at La Fémis. He collaborated on several short fiction films by Hélier Cisterne (Les deux vies du serpent, Sous la lame de l’épée...), which had strong festival runs, including the Grand Prize at Côté Court and selections at the Critics’ Week. He co-wrote with Frédéric Farrucci on the short film Entre les lignes (pre-nominated for the César Awards) and the feature film La Nuit Venue, which won the César for Best Original Music.
Developed Projects
A group hitherto unknown - Committee liquidating and hijacking computers, Bison Bourré... The authors are still being sought. Between 1975 and 1985, the Toulouse press recorded hundreds of actions (bombings, explosive charges) claimed by autonomous and libertarian groups with eccentric names. Heirs of May 68, anti-Francoism and situationism, they targeted work, prisons, registration and nuclear power. Forty years later, never convicted, certain members recount their “years of ember” and their “certain taste for sabotage” through actors reenacting their story. Having become respectable grandpas and grandmas, they explain how, without boasting, they wanted to put an end to a society that they judged (and still judge) unfair. They tell how isolated individuals formed affinity groups, how humor carried them along, and how despair overtook them when all their struggles failed. Returning to their original class, becoming teachers or workers like their parents, few still believe in the Revolution, but none regret having for a time been a pebble in the shoe of the established order.
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