France | 1996 | 98 mins | b&w – col | doc | dir. Hervé Le Roux
One of the monuments of contemporary documentary cinema, Reprise offers a provocative re-evaluation of the tumultuous and by now mythical events in May '68 and their aftermath. On June 10, 1968, students from the Parisian film school, IDHEC recorded the end of the strike at the Wonder Factory in Saint-Ouen. A young woman worker refused to go back to work. After director Hervé le Roux saw a photograph of her in Cahiers du Cinéma he began a long search for this 'heroine', a search that charts the changes in French radical politics over the past 30 years.
