Americans are notoriously dense when it comes to history. But if all history lessons were as compelling as English writer/director Peter Watkins’ docudrama about the Paris Commune, then maybe that ...
As a combination history lesson/film manifesto/contemporary media critique, it’s safe to say there’s nothing quite like La Commune (Paris, 1871). The most recent film from acclaimed British ...
So far as mental fireworks go, the Fourth of July weekend is unlikely to offer anything more spectacular than Peter Watkins’s masterpiece La Commune (Paris, 1871). Dynamic historical reconstruction in ...
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The first part of Peter Watkins’ six-hour docudrama focuses on the euphoric rise of the Paris Commune, and part two tells the story of its quick decline. The commune was a sort of aftershock of the ...