For sure, "Reprise" cannot pretend to the status of landmark in movie history. It's nevertheless a profoundly moving and eminently engaging film. Director le Roux has used the 1968 newsreel "la reprise du travail aux Usines Wonder" as a very original McGuffin (or very original "Rosebud", if you want) in order to track back two decades of French social history through a series of interviews. Like in "Citizen Kane", with each interview we feel the pieces of the puzzle -in that case what was the daily life in a French factory in the suburbs of Paris from the 1960s to the 1980s - falling into place. Brilliantly constructed, intellectually challenging and an absolute must for anyone interested in social relationships (or simply in human portraits).
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