Wishing You the Same
6.5
The iconic book ”Europeana: A Brief History of the Twentieth Century” by Patrik Ouředník, first published in 2001, thanks to the imagination of the French filmmaker has transformed into an apocalyptic chronicle of the last century. A straightforward testimony of scientific rationality, which led the society to a spiritual crisis and resulted in six genocides, is accompanied with melancholic Mahlerian echoes of La Belle Époque when the world was just getting ready for the century that negated all humanity. The film raises the question whether Europe in post-history and post-humanity, sweetly anaesthetized to collective unconsciousness, will pretend as if nothing had happened.
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Arnaud de Mezamat Director · Patrik Ouředník Writer Pauline Le Duc Editor
First release September 5, 2019 · Produced in France · Production ARTE
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Abacaris Films
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ARTE
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France
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Original title
Espère de même pour toi
Original language
French
Spoken on screen
French
Release dates
Argentina · September 5, 2019
Limited theatrical · FIDBA (Festival Internacional de Cine Documental de Buenos Aires)
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Czechia
October 25, 2019 · Premiere · Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
France
November 25, 2019 · ARTE
Poland
September 4, 2021 · Docs Against Gravity Film Festival
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