Vincent Glenn

Even today, the GDB is the indicator of wealth the most quoted in reference in the media, by economists, journalists and political representatives. What is it that makes us continue to advocate an increase in GDB, no matter if it, to take up Robert Kennedy's expression, 'measures everything except what makes life worth living' ?. A mystery. "Indices", the new film by Vincent Glenn, exposes the aberrations of a mode of calculation that positively adds up the compensations caused by catastrophes, and which we continue almost everywhere to use to define the 'quality of life' of nations.

What is the connection between a pension reform and motorcycle racing, between the Louvre Museum and tenderness, between a phoenix and the work of a cinematographer, between abandonment and cruelty, between alcohol and memory? There is this film—woven like an essay, like a journey… or perhaps a journey on trial.

They were unemployed, they became extremely rich in record time, and, of course, this poses a few problems for them... But this isn't the main thing. The main thing is that, meanwhile, they have completely transformed the world economy. How did they do it ? This is what the host and star of Radio France Plurielle, the young and highly popular public radio station, wants to find out. At the beginning there was a simple idea...