Mathieu Sapin and Jean-Pierre Pozzi recount the decline of the Socialist Party in a documentary film

It is a long-term job provided by the author of the strips-comics Mathieu Sapin and screenwriter and director Jean-Pierre Pozzi. While the first is in the process of scribbling boards which will be intended to illustrate the fortieth anniversary of the election of François Mitterrand, he meets figures from the shadows of this prosperous period of the Socialist Party, like Julien Dray . “It’s a movie we shot a year ago. We thought we’d release it much sooner“, begins Mathieu Sapin.

But how did the left get here? “At the time we were filming, we thought the film would be more of a wake-up call on the state of the left, the state of the socialist party that was going to wake up a future campaign“. But two months before the first round of the presidential election, the co-author is disillusioned: “The movie is out now and we’re like ‘damn’, the situation is much worse than we imagined“. Filmed from the start of the rue de Solferino, the historic headquarters of the party, the documentary which also includes numerous archive images will be on view from February 9.