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Michel Foucault

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Michel Foucault

Born October 15, 1926 · Poitiers, Vienne, France

Died June 25, 1984 · aged 57

Paul-Michel Foucault (15 October 1926 – 25 June 1984) was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, writer, political activist, and literary critic. Foucault's theories primarily address the relationships between power and knowledge, and how they are used as a form of social control through societal institutions. Though often cited as a structuralist and postmodernist, Foucault rejected these labe…

Known For

I, Pierre Rivière, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister and My Brother…I, Pierre Rivière, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister and My Brother… · 1976
I, Pierre Rivière, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister and My Brother…
★ 6.51976
MovieCrimeDrama
Based on documents compiled by leading French philosopher Michel Foucault, this unique and original film charts the gruesome events which took place in a Normandy village in 1835, when a young man, Pierre Rivière, murdered his mother, sister and brother before fleeing to the countryside. With a cast made up of real-life villagers from the area where the events took place, the detailed re-enactments and careful attention to the gestures of their ancestors serve to create an intense and sometimes disturbing atmosphere of hyper-realism. Details of the crime and of the trial that followed are told from varied perspectives, including the written confession of Pierre himself, and form a rich and complex narrative that interrogates the concepts of “truth” and “history”.
Maids of HonorMaids of Honor · 1975
Maids of Honor
1975
Movie
Las Meninas is a brilliant essay on illusionism, mirrors and perception in art, life and video, articulated by Downey as a subjective interpretation of Velasquez's eponymous Baroque masterpiece. Through a theatrical reenactment of the painting's pictorial tableau and a re-articulation of its complex perspectival structure, Downey brings to life the spatial dynamics, illustrating the psychological tension of the relationship between viewer and subject. Placing Las Meninas in a historical context, Downey relates the painting's thematics to Spain's economic and political systems of the late 17th century.
Bachelard parmi nous ou l'héritage invisibleBachelard parmi nous ou l'héritage invisible · 1972
Bachelard parmi nous ou l'héritage invisible
★ 10.01972
Movie
Philosophie et psychologiePhilosophie et psychologie · 1965
Philosophie et psychologie
1965
MovieDocumentary
The Angst and the BlissThe Angst and the Bliss · 2022
The Angst and the Bliss
★ 6.52022
MovieAnimation
One summer’s evening in 1933, the writer Raymond Roussel closes the door of his hotel room in Palermo. He swallows pills, drags the mattress to the centre of the room and lies down on it. The next morning his companion finds his corpse. But is he really dead?
Linhas CruzadasLinhas Cruzadas · 2021
Linhas Cruzadas
★ 10.02021
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I, Pierre Rivière, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister and My Brother…I, Pierre Rivière, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister and My Brother… · 1976
I, Pierre Rivière, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister and My Brother…
★ 6.51976
MovieCrimeDrama
Based on documents compiled by leading French philosopher Michel Foucault, this unique and original film charts the gruesome events which took place in a Normandy village in 1835, when a young man, Pierre Rivière, murdered his mother, sister and brother before fleeing to the countryside. With a cast made up of real-life villagers from the area where the events took place, the detailed re-enactments and careful attention to the gestures of their ancestors serve to create an intense and sometimes disturbing atmosphere of hyper-realism. Details of the crime and of the trial that followed are told from varied perspectives, including the written confession of Pierre himself, and form a rich and complex narrative that interrogates the concepts of “truth” and “history”.

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