PAYS DE COCAGNE

France
1970
73 minutes

Interviewed during the Summer of 1968, the French speak their minds about eroticism, art, violence, advertising, man's trip to the moon and other topical subjects. A bitter look at the state of late 1960s France where the interviews and statements are skillfully edited into a sort of unwittingly surrealist comedy; a ferociously violent critical reception and commercial disaster effectively killed its author's career as a film director.

Paul Claudon presents a CAPAC production. (Original French distributor, Parafrance; French restoration distributor, Carlotta Films. World sales, Studio 37/Carlotta Films.)
Directed and conceived by Pierre Étaix; camera (Eclair), Georges Lendi; film editor, Michel Lewin.
Screened: Festa do Cinema Francês advance DVD screener, Lisbon, September 27th 2010.

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