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Blottière, Mathilde
2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Michael Haneke denounces the orgy of brutal images
In an interview conducted by Mathilde Blottiere, Austrian film director Michael Haneke says that American cinema makes "violence a product for mass-consumption. ... [The] loss of standards gets a little worse everyday in the media orgy of brutal images: a real pornography of violence. With the development of communication in every direction, it's even more present today. And art has not been spared. For many filmmakers, exploiting the distracting qualities of violence has become the pinnacle of cool. ... Violence has always profoundly revolted me ... How can we revel in the suffering of others, even on the screen? I don't understand. As long as this unhealthy fascination exists, I won't stop speaking out about it and opposing dominant cinema."
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The mixed impact of politically engaged documentaries
The documentary 'We Feed the World' by the Austrian Erwin Wagenhofer, which denounces the practices of multinational food manufacturers, will be released on French screens on Wednesday April 25th. Mathilde Blottière wonders "what impact a documentary film can have on how things evolve and what the point is in disturbing the more or less sleepy consciences of western consumers. They, that is we, are indeed the ones being addressed by the director of 'We feed the world'. Without being able to say whether he has been listened to we can say that he has been heard. His film has broken records in Austria where more than 200,000 people have been to see it. In Germany, 380,000 people have seen it. .. Behind this growing buzz there still lies a misunderstanding: viewers seem to be more outraged by what the documentary says about their own bad food than about other people's famines."
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