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Fragments sur la misère

1999 · 90 min

A sober, angry plunge into lives on the margins that leaves you unsettled and thinking long after it ends.

Directed by
Christophe Otzenberger
Overview
Christophe Otzenberger spent a year running the streets with one question: "How do you live with misery? An angry journey to meet the excluded and what excludes, because apart from the brutal poverty that condemns you to the street, work, indifference and precariousness also generate other forms of misery.

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Directed by
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Tone
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • class
  • isolation
  • survival
  • politics
  • work
Places
  • big city
  • countryside
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • documentary
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
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ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror2
Humour1
Realism10
Romance0
Tension4
Darkness8
Complexity5
Emotional weight9

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Directed by
Christophe Otzenberger
Runtime
90 min
Languages
French

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