2020 | France | Documentary

Grève ou crève (Strike or Die)

  • French - 93 mins
  • Director | Jonathan Rescigno
  • Writer | Jonathan Rescigno
  • Producer | Francois Ladsous

STATUS: Released

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In his hometown, a former industrial site in Lorraine, Jonathan Rescigno follows individual people and draws loose connections between their stories. Two friends, sons of Arab immigrants, pass their time idling at local fairs and discos. Another man donates smoke grenades and helmets to the mining museum, mementos of miners’ strikes in the 1980s and ‘90s. Another has had an accident at work and doesn’t know how to respond to the false statements his boss has put in the insurance report. An older coach works with young boxers, training them for a fight. Archive video material showing the escalating mining strikes separates these narrative threads.

Social Realism Industrial Decline Community Immigrant Experience Labor Rights