Béziers, The Other Side
2024•3h 8m•8.5•Released
Documentary
Structured in two parts, the film uses the municipal newspaper, Le Journal de Béziers (later renamed Le Journal du Biterrois), to examine the city's management by Robert Ménard, elected mayor in 2014 with the support of the National Rally. By meeting with residents and activists, the film reveals the "behind the scenes" of this southern French city. It shows how this newspaper shapes a political and ideological line for a fundamentalist Catholic France, rejecting Muslims, while simultaneously seeking to control and monitor all its inhabitants. A vision of the far right in power…
Director
Daniel Kupferstein
Writer
Daniel Kupferstein
Languages
French
Studio
Aum Films
Cast
Robert Ménard
Self (archive footage)
Production
Company
Aum Films
Company
Angoa-Agicoa
Company
PROCIREP
Company
Région Occitanie / Pyrénées-Méditerranée
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