The Monopoly of Violence | Melbourne Film Festival 2021
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This timely, intelligent and emotional examination of state-sanctioned violence reveals a disturbingly universal story. David Dufresne’s second feature, which screened to acclaim at the 2020 New York Film Festival, is an often eye-opening study of police brutality in France – specifically, it documents the gilet jaunes protest movement of 2018 and 2019. But, by sad, outrageous reality and circumstance, The Monopoly of Violence could just as easily have been about the USA, or Hong Kong, or (...) #Agenda