All Power to the Imagination! // marin karmitz evening
Blow for Blow / Coup pour coup
France | 1972 | col | 89 mins | dir. Marin Karmitz, with Simone Aubin, Jacqueline Auzellaud
Known today as France’s most visible producer, distributor and exhibitor of art-house cinema, Marin Karmitz is less recognised as a key exponent of post-May ’68 cinema. His film Coup pour coup is a fictional reconstruction of the successful occupation by women of a French textile factory, and a study of the general conditions of many working class women in France, and the suppression they endure both at work and at home. A collaborative and collective effort, the film was written and re-enacted by the real-life striking workers (though the management 'heavies' are all played by actors).
