Costa-Gavras’cinema in the XXI century: Representations of the idea of Europe
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https://doi.org/10.24310/Fotocinema.2020.vi21.10003Keywords:
Political Cinema, Costa-Gavras, Europe, European Union, Immigration, GlobalizationAbstract
This article focuses on the last phase in the filmography of French-Greek director Costa-Gavras, one of the main references in contemporary political cinema, in which he reveals the fractures of a postmodern Europe from multiple angles. Gavras’s films trace a path that goes from the ravages of unemployment in The Ax (Le couperet, 2005) to the stark reality of illegal immigration in Eden is West (Éden à l'Ouest, 2009), the speculative mechanisms of the economy in Capital (Le capital, 2012), and into the institutional heart of the European Union in Adults in the Room (2019). The investigation shows how the narrative and discursive constructions of these film offer a vision of contemporary European drift in a dual sense between reality and utopia: they do so by adopting a tone of magical realism that becomes a metaphor for the crisis of values ??under way in the European Union.
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