Jornal da Mostra
Nº 342 > 28ª Mostra > 21/07/2005
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Movie and books reactivate the image of Mitterrand in France.
The former President François Mitterrand, who has ruled France for 14 years and died in 1996, is back in the French press due to the publication of books with unprecedented revelations about his life and the release of the feature film Le Promeneur du Champ de Mars, from the director Robert Guediguian (Marius and Jeannette – 21ª Mostra – and La Ville Est Tranquile - 25ª Mostra).Based on the book “Dernier Mitterrand”, by Georges-Marc Benamou, who also contributed in the screenplay, Le Promeneur du Champ de Mars has the old timer actor Michel Bouquet, 79 years old, in the leading part and it was released in February 16th, in the French theaters.
Showed in the last Berlin Festival Film, it portrays the story of an old politician debilitated by cancer, without any hope, and a young left wing journalist (Jalil Lespert) who tries to take as much advantage as he can from the doctrines of the statesman. But the Mitterrand in the film, ends with all the young man’s expectations and appears to be pessimist regarding the future of the country. “I’m the last of the great presidents, after me there will be only financiers and accountants”, says the president in the film.
Mitterrand’s sentence seems to have a incontrovertible truth. When the French citizens rejected, in the plebiscite performed in May, the approval of the European Constitution, they were saying “no” to the financiers, accountants, technocrats swindlers…
