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Videocracy

Sweden, Denmark, Finland, United Kingdom

2009

85 Min
Color
Italian, English
  • Currently 3.1/5 Stars.
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DIR Erik Gandini

EXEC Kristina Åberg

PROD Erik Gandini, Axel Arnö, Mikael Olsen

SCR Erik Gandini

DP Manuel Alberto Claro, Lukas Eisenhauer

CAST Silvio Berlusconi, Flavio Briatore, Fabio Calvi, Rick Canelli, Fabrizio Corona

ED Johan Söderberg

MUSIC Johan Söderberg, Krister Linder, David Österberg

Venice (International Critics' Week), Toronto (Real to Reel), São Paulo, IDFA (Reflecting Images - Best of Fests), Transilvania (Special screening), MIFF (Documentaries)

Synopsis

This penetrating look at the media empire of Italy’s prime minister Silvio Berlusconi reveals how his reality TV shows full of bikini-clad women enriched his friends and beguiled a nation. —tiff.net

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"October Country," "Timbuktu," "Videocracy" and "American Radical"

By David Hudson on February 10, 2010
"The type of introspective, intimate domestic American nonfiction that has sprouted up so much in art-house theaters in the wake of the success of Capturing the Friedmans has come to typify documentary
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The Auteurs Daily: Venice and Toronto. Videocracy

By David Hudson on September 10, 2009
Updated through 9/23. "If you wanted to script a cautionary tale about the politics of fame (and the fame of politics), you couldn't come up with anything more apt and odd than Erik Gandini's documentary
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TIFF 09: VIDEOCRACY Review

By Twitchfilm.net on July 17, 2010
It has often been said that we’re living in a digital age and that those who control the media control the public. It’s such a common sentiment that most western nations have entrenched controls guaranteeing
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I watched Videocracy

By benjist​yler on August 26, 2010

And I have a few comments for the director:
Form is a big deal. Please, if you are planning on extensively using voice-over, elocution classes might be a good idea, or you may want to consider…  read review

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This could be good

2 posts by 2 people 12 months ago