Comrades: What the fac! (critical)

A free and unclassifiable comedy, like the University of Vincennes, a sixty-eighter experience that it tells through 8 euphoric episodes. The back-to-school gem, watch now on Arte.tv.

You were unable to enroll at Vincennes University at the start of the school year? It’s normal. She no longer exists.

45 years ago, Jacques Chirac – then mayor of Paris – simply razed the buildings of an academic experiment that had since fallen into oblivion.

We are in 1969. In the wake of the events of May 68, and in order to respond to the non-conformist aspirations of French youth, the Couve de Murville government accepted the creation of a somewhat separate university, designed as a laboratory of freedom, where we can think about teaching differently, bring in new disciplines and above all leave a lot of room for speech and protest…