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Originally intended as a piece of a larger production, The Model Couple is a satire that is critical of mass media, technology and government surveillance, and investigates the ways in which liberal societies can become oppressively totalitarian.
The Model Couple es una película dirigida por William Klein con André Dussollier, Anémone, Zouc, Jacques Boudet .... Año: 1977. Título original: Le couple témoin. Sinopsis: El Ministerio Francés del Futuro, a través de su avanzado sistema computarizado, ha escogido a una pareja promedio, integrada por Jean-Michel y Claudine, con la ...
A searing satire of the breakdown of individual freedoms in the face of increasing governmental invasions of privacy, William Klein's The Model Couple deftly investigates the fine line between democracy and totalitarianism.
In 1977 France, the Ministry of the Future chooses two “normal,” white, middle-class citizens, Claudine and Jean-Michel, for a national experiment. They will be monitored and displayed on television for six months in a model apartment outfitted with state-of-the-art products and nonstop surveillance—the template for “a new ...
Jean-Michel and Claudine enroll in a social experiment as the « model couple », a 24/7 live show where scientists probe them and examine them. The couple themselves try to play along despite increasingly surreal demands and tests, and the analysts surrounding them quickly give in to pure sadism.
The film tells the story of a young French couple chosen to live in an arranged apartment where their lives are broadcasted on television and publicly analyzed as closely as wars going on in other corners of the globe.
A searing satire of the breakdown of individual freedoms in the face of increasing governmental invasions of privacy, William Klein's THE MODEL COUPLE deftly investigates the fine line between democracy and totalitarianism.
