Who is punished and why? Where does the logic of punishment come from? Why does the justice system struggle to instill a genuine sense of justice? Lorraine de Sagazan and Guillaume Poix, after an immersion in the contemporary criminal justice system, focus on immediate appearance.
In this expeditious procedure, defendants come face to face with a prosecutor rather than their victims, and minor offenses can result in harsh sentences.
What is judged is not the suffering caused, but the violation of the law. Under a symbolic big top, Sagazan questions certainties and explores the dilemma of violence and its legal framework, asking the essential question: who is the monster?
Leviathan is the third part of a cycle of reflections based on three hundred interviews, questioning the shortcomings and alternatives of the legal system, after La Vie invisible and Un sacre.
Running time
1h45
From : 15 years old
In this expeditious procedure, defendants come face to face with a prosecutor rather than their victims, and minor offenses can result in harsh sentences.
What is judged is not the suffering caused, but the violation of the law. Under a symbolic big top, Sagazan questions certainties and explores the dilemma of violence and its legal framework, asking the essential question: who is the monster?
Leviathan is the third part of a cycle of reflections based on three hundred interviews, questioning the shortcomings and alternatives of the legal system, after La Vie invisible and Un sacre.
Running time
1h45
From : 15 years old
