Director: Matthias Vaysse
Author: Matthias Vaysse
Executive Producer: Olivier de Bannes
Broadcaster: Planet +
Release year: 2017
Running time: 52 minutes
THE PROVIDENTIAL MAN
Every five years, during the Presidential elections, French voters collectively persuade themselves that life is going to change for the better. That one man or one woman will arise from the masses and solve all their problems. Even if, in the end, their disappointment is as deep as their expectations were high, the same play keeps being acted at each election : we are waiting for the providential man (or woman). However, providence is supposed to be God’s intervention in human affairs to restore order to the chaos in the world. A creaky portrait of French people’s political unconscious.
