Béziers, The Other Side

Béziers, The Other Side

2024
3h 8m
8.5

8.5/10

2 votes
Documentary
Overview

Structured in two parts, the film uses the municipal newspaper, Le Journal de Béziers (later renamed Le Journal du Biterrois), to examine the city's management by Robert Ménard, elected mayor in 2014 with the support of the National Rally. By meeting with residents and activists, the film reveals the "behind the scenes" of this southern French city. It shows how this newspaper shapes a political and ideological line for a fundamentalist Catholic France, rejecting Muslims, while simultaneously seeking to control and monitor all its inhabitants. A vision of the far right in power…

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Status: Released

Language: FR

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Production Information

Production Companies
Aum Films Angoa-Agicoa PROCIREP Région Occitanie / Pyrénées-Méditerranée
Production Countries
France
Spoken Languages
French

Keywords

discrimination anti-racism french politics liberté, égalité, fraternité racisme structurel migrants stigmatisation béziers extrême droite populism

Quick Facts

Original Title Béziers, l’envers du décor
Release Date February 28, 2024
Status Released
Language FR
Website Visit Site

Cast

Robert Ménard
Robert Ménard

Self (archive footage)

Key Crew

Daniel Kupferstein
Director
Daniel Kupferstein
Writer