See you, Garbage!
- Politic
- Social strike
- Christmas
01/Synopsis
See you, Garbage! is a dramedy with the air of a revolutionary tale, aiming to explore the encounter between the well-layered contempt of the political class and a sudden awakening of its people.
At Christmas, three garbage collectors are surprised to be invited to the Prime Minister’s house.Pour Noël, trois éboueurs, Élie, Nino et Belz, ont la surprise d’être reçus à dîner à la maison du premier ministre et de la première dame. They go there, enthusiastic and naive, unaware that on the menu awaits a painful series of disappointments and manipulations.
04/Crédits
Réalisateur
Romain Dumont
Production
Patrick Francke-Sirois, Isabelle Grignon-Francke
Directeur de la photographie
Antoine Ryan
Direction artistique
Catherine K.Pelletier
Son
Casey Brown
Musique
Blaise Émard, Ilyaa Ghafouri
Montage
Guillaume Marin et Anouk Deschênes
Avec
Caroline Dhavernas, Steve Laplante, Guillaume Laurin, Hamza Meziani, Hamidou Savadogo, Ralph Prosper
Distribution
H264
02/Intentions
Director’s notes
“See You, Garbages is inspired by a true story. I read in Paris-Match that one day, former French President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing invited garbage collectors to his breakfast table. On screen, these people appeared embarrassed. They were three French people of Senegalese and Malian origin.
I then wanted to denounce the manipulation and spectacle-driven politics that dominate today’s media.
03/Media
Talking about us
“Dumont doesn’t just twist the knife in the wound: he drives in his thumbs, digs into the flesh, and removes all the rot. I love these unsettling scenes that make you shiver down to the very core of your spine, leaving a feeling of indignation, tension, and revolt. What a pleasure.”
“Through his film, with its sharp and engaging message, Romain Dumont, far from the idea of ‘class struggle,’ wanted to denounce the manipulation and spectacle-driven politics that dominate today’s media Pretense has replaced the debate of ideas and the questioning of comfortable positions. Like a Christmas turkey, the filmmaker has stripped ‘politics’ of the chocolate coating of controlled imagery, without losing hope for a potentially salutary awakening.”
«In an interview, Romain Dumont expresses outrage at certain ways politicians behave.
“I’m not targeting anyone in particular, but I found it interesting to see just how much certain professions are manipulated to reach voters. And it’s done with such enormous contempt, which they think they can hide, even though it doesn’t work.”»
