Costa Gavras - Olivier Menanteau

Z (1969, 127') tells the story of the assassination of pacifist member of parliament Grigóris Lambrákis in Thessaloniki in 1963, and sketches a portrait of Greece in the sixties. Fifty years later, Olivier Menanteau's film revisits the the event that inspired the film in the current political context. The first movie is a thriller that won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1970, while the second is an artist's documentary. Z, il est toujours vivant (2017-2019, 32'42") puts the Greek filmmaker's movie into perspective, setting it against the backdrop of today's tumults and recharging the extraordinary power of its analysis of democracy. 

As part of Jeudis des Abattoirs.