Con el pretexto de luchar contra el terrorismo o la delincuencia, las grandes potencias se han embarcado en una peligrosa carrera de tecnologías de vigilancia. Cámaras de reconocimiento facial, detectores de emociones, sistemas de calificación ciudadana, drones autónomos… Una obsesión por la seguridad que en algunos países está dando lugar a una nueva forma de régimen político: el totalitarismo numérico. La pesadilla de Orwell.
Les Fauves covers 15 years of hostility between Nicolas Sarkozy and Dominique de Villepin, from the 1995 presidential elections to the present day. Much of the French political right’s history can be expressed in the no-holds-barred battle between these two party siblings, who are simply incarnating the sequel to Chirac vs. Balladur. In this fight-to-the-political-death, senselessness and zeal trump all.
In a series of long interviews, 12 prime ministers talk about their experience in the upper echelons of power. The function of prime minister, torn between the president and the parliament, appointed without necessarily being elected but responsible for everything, is at the center of debate. With the exception of Jacques Chirac (1974-1976 and 1986-1988), deliberately left out because of his image as French President, those who governed France for the past 35 years agreed to discuss the exercise of power, as seen through archive footage, but also how they experienced it personally. Filmed in the same studio and sitting in the same chair, 12 French prime ministers talk freely about their time in office, from their appointment until their resignation.
