This week, the editorial staff of La Vie offers you an edifying investigation into conspiracy pushed to its climax. A dive, Sunday evening, into the heart of these citizens at war with society, ready to do anything to escape it. In a lighter register, the fascinating documentary devoted to popular balls broadcast Monday evening looks back on the history of these dance places forming a real object of study of the evolution of mores within society.
On Tuesday, the Great Depression rages across the United States in the hard-hitting film From Shadow to Light, featuring the meteoric rise of an apprentice boxer. The strength of character of the character camped by Russel Crowe impresses.
Finally, two moving documentaries conclude this week. The first, My darling child, devoted to drugs, tells through the eyes of parents, the trajectory of young people who have fallen into cocaine or cannabis from adolescence. A film tinged with empathy, revealing complex feelings; that of guilt in the first place. The other paints the portrait of Claire-Emerentienne Fichefeux, a young girl with Down’s syndrome, whose ardent faith is narrated in the very moving documentary Claire Aimee, the joy of living broadcast Thursday morning on KTO. Have a nice week on your screens!
Sunday – The factory of lies: “Mia case” these citizens who secede
Documentary
To be confronted with a theory, no matter how insane and hazy. Adhere to it little by little, then completely, until breaking the law, while being convinced of doing good. This is a worrying trend, explored in this issue of The factory of lies. In April 2021, Mia, then eight years old and placed with her grandmother, was abducted. Quickly, the investigators find his kidnapper: his own mother, Lola Montemaggi. A conspirator, the young woman had gradually locked herself into a delusional system of thought, encouraged by her new “family” found on social networks.
This fascinating program explores the excesses of these citizens, at war against the laws of their country, ready to do anything to escape them, sometimes at the cost of violence. From “sovereign citizens” to those convinced that the elites are satanist paedocriminals, all advance eccentric justifications, surprisingly arousing indignation, or minimal questioning.
A psychiatrist, a researcher, an academic and other experts shed light on the path leading to this extreme form of conspiracy, and thereby reveal the confinement of these individuals in a paranoid and anxiety-provoking universe from which it is often difficult to get out… KO
France 5 at 8:55 p.m.
Monday – In the popular balls
Documentary
If the Covid does not resume, dance lovers should be able to find places this summer to satisfy their passion. This captivating documentary looks back at the history of popular balls, showing how they were the subject of issues affecting both political life and relations between women and men. Under the Third Republic, the July 14 ball thus aimed to unite in the same communion a people divided between supporters and opponents of the French Revolution.
Depending on the region, different folk dances then offer to move rather in groups, giving the impression of belonging to the same community. The 20th century saw the emergence of associations for two, in ballrooms, then dance halls, nightclubs, in village squares or in the cellars of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, in Paris. The bodies are getting closer, even if it is not well perceived by the ecclesial authorities.
After the Second World War, balls became the first meeting places. The end of the century saw the appearance of forms in which one wiggles alone, without touching the others. The whole offers a fascinating investigation. Not only that, because each dance style is illustrated with archive images, which allow you to visualize the variety of choreographies. But also, because the authors subtly show how each style reflects an evolution in the mores of French society. After two years, prohibiting all physical contact, it will be interesting to observe what new dance may well emerge or return in the coming months. ES
France 3 at 9:10 p.m.
Tuesday – From shadow to light
Film
In the 1930s, the Great Depression raged in the United States. Between high unemployment and food shortages, James Braddock, his wife Mae, and their three children are trying to survive. Former professional boxer retired following numerous failures, James is forced to accept any odd job in order to feed his family.
But one day, his former agent and friend contacts him again: because of an abandonment, he is offered to face the second world boxer in Madison Square Garden. While he lacks training, he defies all predictions by winning the fight. James continues on this momentum, and from victories to victories, the public is passionate about this unexpected trajectory. Until the day when Braddock must face his ultimate adversary: the champion Max Baer, known for having already killed two men in the ring.
Already twice Oscar winner, Ron Howard embarked in 2005 on this adaptation of the extraordinary career of this boxer, whom the American press nicknamed “The Cinderella Man”. By perfectly recreating the setting of the 1930s, and calling on Russel Crowe – remarkably accurately -, the director brilliantly illustrates this unique destiny. Despite the many very, sometimes too graphic fight scenes, he manages to embody very moving scenes, without being tearful. Despite an unsurprising ending and some dragging sequences, From the shadow to the light offers an intelligent and hard-hitting plot, going beyond the simple boxing film. SR
Art at 1:35 p.m.
Wednesday – My darling child
Documentary
“Smoking is escaping reality, a badly digested divorce, parents who no longer get along… But do we necessarily have to look for discomfort? The whole of humanity has a malaise”. These melancholic words clearly express the feeling of bewilderment felt by the parents of addicted children. Fallen into cocaine or cannabis from adolescence, they have lost their candor, their health, their lucidity and for some, their capacity for empathy. Not to mention memory loss, attention problems, pronounced irascibility…
Fathers and mothers tell, in several chapters, how the drug affected their offspring. Over the course of testimonies captured with accuracy, each (e) expresses beyond the particularities of a personal experience a universal feeling: the fear of seeing his child escape him, feeling of powerlessness arousing guilt. The word is raw: “These people who use drugs are no longer your children, but strangers. It’s almost reassuring to say to yourself: it’s not my son, it’s someone else… But it’s also terrifying.”hesitates a maternal voice.
Trajectories which, if punctuated by back and forth towards addiction, serve a discourse that goes far beyond the stigmatization of dependent people. “The weaknesses, he already had them before. The drug was only a kind of revealer of this vulnerability. They are beings, the wind hardly brushes them, one feels in them all the misery of the world “, thus testifies a father about his child. A vulnerability that this documentary full of empathy transcribes well. THAT
LCP, at 8:30 p.m.
Thursday – Claire Aime, the joy of living
Documentary
Born in October 1986, abandoned at five months, Claire-Emerentienne Fichefeux, nicknamed “Claire Aime” was adopted by a couple already parents of seven children, members of the Emmanuel Community. Within this loving and deeply believing home, the young girl with Down syndrome was able, little by little, to abandon herself and say “Yes” to life.
Radiating with an ardent faith, without filters, without make-up, Claire Aime felt and turned the hearts of those she met, leading them to that of God. Throughout this moving documentary, her parents and loved ones testify to this existence steeped in joy, but not devoid of battles, and to the human and spiritual journey, so pure, so humble, of the one who was a “spiritual master” and a “prophet” for many.
Six months before her departure for Heaven, which occurred at the age of 27, she wrote in her notebook: “My decision is to worship more often and to take the Lord as my husband and to love like Jesus until the end. » The writer and philosopher Fabrice Hadjadj suggested to Pope Francis the idea of opening a beatification process. ALF
KTO at 10:55 a.m.