While the debate between the two rounds will take place this Wednesday, April 20 at 9 p.m., this LCP documentary sheds light behind the scenes of presidential duels since 1974 and recounts fifty years of political communication.
We were afraid of getting bored revisiting the presidential debates between the two rounds, “the monopoly of the heart” or the scathing “But you are absolutely right, Prime Minister! » are part of the television heritage. Except that the first part of this documentary (1974-2002) depicts those who remained in the shadows, from the preparation until D-Day.
Robert Badinter, Serge Moati, Michèle Cotta or Alain Duhamel mix here anecdotes and substantive issues. Valéry Giscard d’Estaing refuses the lighting on his skull. In 1981, Fabius “plays” Chirac in front of a Mitterrand who leaves the room. A few minutes from the live against VGE, the same Mitterrand wiped away a tear, touched by Serge Moati who told him how proud his deceased parents, socialists, would have been. In 1995, Lionel Jospin, who arrived with a mismatched suit, beat his opponent with his exit “Better five years with Jospin than seven years with Chirac”… We let ourselves be carried away by a fluid chronology, which recounts so well the evolution of political communication. Appropriate a few hours before the debate between the two rounds, opposing Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen.
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q Face to face for the Élysée, documentary (1/2) by Cécile Cornudet and Benjamin Colmon (France, 2020). The second part can be seen on the site of LCP-National Assembly.
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