Starlets of the Revolution
João Moreira Salles’ In The Intense Now shows how the revolutionaries of the sixties used — and were used by — the media.
Students protest police violence during the May ’68 uprising. (Photo courtesy of Icarus Films.)
It would be wrong to say that João Moreira Salles’ recent documentary In the Intense Now (2017) deals with the legacy of May ’68. Rather, it deals with its non-legacy: the different means by which radical movements were co-opted, compromised, commercialised, or crushed. Made up of archive footage from France, Czechoslovakia during and after the Prague […]
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