Wishing You the Same(2019)

Wishing You the Same Synopsis

The iconic book ”Europeana: A Brief History of the Twentieth Century” by Patrik Ouředník, first published in 2001, thanks to the imagination of the French filmmaker has transformed into an apocalyptic chronicle of the last century. A straightforward testimony of scientific rationality, which led the society to a spiritual crisis and resulted in six genocides, is accompanied with melancholic Mahlerian echoes of La Belle Époque when the world was just getting ready for the century that negated all humanity. The film raises the question whether Europe in post-history and post-humanity, sweetly anaesthetized to collective unconsciousness, will pretend as if nothing had happened.

Wishing You the Same (2019) is a documentary film directed by Arnaud de Mezamat, released on September 5, 2019 with a runtime of 1h 36m. It stars Valérie Dréville, Aliénor de Mézamat and Ignace Steiner. Viewers rate it 8.0 out of 10 across 2 ratings.