FILM: La Commune (Paris, 1871) (2024)

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Watkins’s reenactment of the Paris Commune — the revolutionary proletarian government in 1871 Paris — is another instance of his experimental approach to documentary-fiction. La Commune was shot in under two weeks with hundreds of actors, mostly non-professional, who are the populist backbone of the film. In long-take interviews, they talk about their own sentiments regarding the Commune, on which they had done individual research at Watkin’s behest.