Qu'ils reposent en révolte (Des figures de guerre) (2010)
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Fragments of time and space portray migrants’ living conditions in Calais and the effects of police-state policies on people pushed to society’s margins.
The story
Composed of fragments that echo and collide, the film portrays the living conditions of migrants in Calais over a three-year period. Its shifting treatments of time and space frame a wider examination of how modern police-state policies can extend beyond the law. The people considered include refugees, displaced people, immigrants and undocumented migrants, alongside unemployed people and young people from the suburbs. The film describes how these individuals are treated as criminals and stripped of basic rights, becoming figures pushed outside ordinary legal protections.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Composed of fragments that echo and collide with one another, creating multiple playings-out of time and space, this film depicts the living conditions of migrants in Calais over a period of three years (—). In doing so, it shows how the policies pursued by modern police states spill beyond the bounds of the law, giving rise to grey areas, interstices, spaces of indistinction between exception and rule. Individuals—above all, as the expression of the “vanquished,” outcasts or the contemporary plebs: refugees, displaced people, immigrants, undocumented migrants, but also the unemployed, young people from the suburbs, and others—are thus treated as criminals, stripped, “stripped bare” of the most basic rights that make them subjects of law, and reduced to the state of “pure bodies,” or “bare life.” Figures of war.
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