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For the past few years, a rumor has been spreading in the USA and Israel to the effect that France had become the most antisemitic country in Europe. On the threshold of the 20th century, suddenly, in the homeland of human rights and the emancipation of the Jews, threats, assaults and torched synagogues have written a page in a new breviary of hate.

A dangerous idea for a film, which paralyzes you with apprehension because of the way it stirs up events and touches ideological nerve ends: retracing more than a century of relations between French Jews and the Republic, from Dreyfus to the present day. In the end, Yves Jeuland’s documentary is a brilliant and sensitive blend of motion picture and sound archives, accounts saturated with self-irony and emotion and formal strokes of inspiration. But in addition to its general survey, and its propensity to stir up debate, the Jeuland touch can be found in the way he hears out others, and the way he brings up his own questions. In his unusual ability to embody history.

Marie Cailletet

France - 2007 - 1 h 13 mn & 1 h 52 mn - Colour

Director Yves Jeuland

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