Fini de rire !

A sober, talky documentary that leaves you indignant rather than entertained, patiently connecting the dots of a quiet crackdown on dissent.

Directed by

Clara Menais, Matéo Larroque

Genres

Documentary

Starring

Guillaume Meurice, Lionel Dutemple, Sandrine Alexi

Overview

In France, laughing at the powerful has become a risky business. Over the past thirty years, the country’s most outspoken comedians on television and radio have been systematically silenced, sidelined, censored, or even fired. In public broadcasting as in the private media, the same pattern keeps repeating itself: satire is tolerated as long as it doesn’t bite. The moment it takes aim at those in power, the microphone is switched off. From the sets of Canal+ to the studios of France Inter, through the corridors of France Télévisions, and from the presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy to that of Emmanuel Macron, this documentary traces the mechanisms of a systematic silencing—one that reveals much about the true state of freedom of expression in French broadcasting.

How it feels

Measured and needs your attention.

About

Politics, media, power, freedom

Content

Mild language. No violence, gore or sexual content.

Note

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