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Dixième Chambre: Instants D’Audience | The 10th District Court: Moments of Trial

Rating: 3 stars
By PETER KEOUGH  |  February 9, 2006
3.0 3.0 Stars
NO COMMENT The filmmaker lets the moments speak for themselves.The cases heard in the typical court sessions of Raymond Dépardon’s documentary start out with drunk-driving charges against middle-class plaintiffs and end up with drug, robbery, and other criminal offenses committed by poor people, minorities, and illegal aliens. No surprise as to who gets the better deal, but Dépardon, taking the approach of Frederick Wiseman (whose recent Domestic Violence films this resembles), offers no direct comment. Instead, he chooses moments — such as a judge snidely speculating that the young Arab before her probably hasn’t been spending his spare time at the Centre Georges Pompidou — that deconstruct the fairness and the objectivity of the system.
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