‘The Goldman Case’ and ‘Sugarcane’

“高盛案”和“甘蔗”

Monocle on Culture

社会与文化

2024-09-24

29 分钟
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We discuss two new films in this week’s episode. ‘The Goldman Case’ dramatises the 1976 trial of revolutionary left-wing intellectual Pierre Goldman and is a thrilling retelling of a momentous event in French legal history. Plus: we speak to the directors behind the new documentary ‘Sugarcane’, which follows an investigation into the Canadian Indian residential school system.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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  • Hello and welcome to Monocle on Culture.

  • I'm Robert Bound.

  • How do you grapple with the questions, moments or events which tell a bigger story about a nation and its past on the big screen?

  • This is a complicated task and on today's show we're looking at two very different films from very different places that try to do just this in their own way.

  • The Goldman case dramatises the 1975 trial of revolutionary left wing firebrand Pierre Goldman.

  • The film, directed by Cedric Kahn and starring Arie Wolthalter, is a thrilling retelling of a momentous event in French legal history.

  • We'll catch up with the culture writer Tobias Gray for his take on proceedings then.

  • Sugarcane is a new documentary film which follows an investigation into the Canadian Indian residential school system.

  • It's a moving portrait of a brutal story and a brutal system which the country continues to reckon with.

  • We'll hear from directors Julian Brave, Noisecat and Emily Cassie.

  • Do stay tuned.

  • That's all coming up here on Monocle On Culture.

  • First we're going to look at the Goldman case, currently on release and focus on the 1975 trial of Pierre Goldman, the street fighter and ball of revolutionary energy.

  • The film particularly looks at Goldman's accusation that the French establishment was stacking the odds against him due not only to his fiery reputation, but also because of his Jewishness.

  • Critics have associated it with the Dreyfus affair and the tone and content of OJ Simpson's defence that the police were racist.

  • Monocle contributor Tobias Gray interviewed the director Cedric Kahn recently and was on hand to give us his take on how the Goldman case is perhaps a critique of France itself.

  • Tobias, lovely to have you on the program today and a fascinating topic, the man and the Movie, the Goldman Case.

  • I wonder if you could first of of all give our listeners a little bit of context on Goldman.

  • What kind of a public character was he in France?

  • What did he mean?