Continuing the series initiated by "A German Youth" analyzing the West European left, Jean-Gabriel Périot takes on the Parisian ideals of March '68. Does today's French youth find any point of reference in leftist flagship slogans from fifty years ago? And is there any room for that sensitivity in today's world, or does it seem to relate to obsolete utopias? "Our Defeats" is a record of an extraordinary documentary experiment in which the director asks students to reenact scenes from now classic new wave films by Godard and Marker. The once subversive manifestos sound strange in the mouths of millennials raised on hip-hop and social media. What do terms such as "trade unions" and "revolution" mean to them?

Konrad Wirkowski