Philosophical Screens
Wed 25 Apr 18:30 at BFI Southbank (NFT3)
Matthieu Potte-Bonneville on L’exercice de l’État (The Minister) (France 2011. Dir Pierre Schöller. With Olivier Gourmet, Michel Blanc, Zabou Breitman. 115min. EST)
Philosophical Screens is a new series, running twice per semester, that invites audiences to explore dialogues between philosophy and film, through an evening of rich contextualisation and discussion. It is presented in partnership with the London Graduate School and the Collège International de Philosophie. Each screening has an extended introduction and post-screening discussion.
For this first event, we welcome Matthieu Potte-Bonneville, a specialist on the thought of Michel Foucault at the Lycée Jean Jaurès in Montreuil, and editor of the journal Vacarme, to reflect on Pierre Schöller’s portrait of a government minister.
L’exercice de l’État (France 2011)
French Minister for Transport, Bertrand Saint-Jean, is woken in the middle of the night by his personal private secretary: a bus has crashed into a ravine, initiating a dark odyssey through a treacherous world for the State official. In staging one man’s effort to occupy the complex spaces of power – between conviction and compromise; command and obedience – Schöller invites us to reflect on one of Michel Foucault’s preoccupations: the minister – a figure half-way between state administrator and religious.
http://www.thelondongraduateschool.co.uk/blog/philosophical-screens-lexercice-de-letat-april-25-bfi-southbank/
Tickets prices and booking here
http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/bfi_southbank/visitor_information/ticket_prices
Professor John Mullarkey, MA, PhD
Film and Television Studies
School of Performance and Screen Studies
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Kingston University, London
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