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Record W3133921570 · doi:10.1353/tfr.2020.0286

Antigone réal. par Sophie Deraspe

2020· article· fr· W3133921570 on OpenAlex
Miléna Santoro

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Bibliographic record

Venue˜The œFrench review · 2020
Typearticle
Languagefr
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicAfrican history and culture studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBrotherSisterTragedy (event)ArtFilm directorArt historyMovie theaterHumanitiesLiteratureSociology

Abstract

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Reviewed by: Antigone réal. par Sophie Deraspe Miléna Santoro Deraspe, Sophie, réal. Antigone. Int. Nahéma Ricci, Maison, 4: 3, 2019. With twenty years of experience, Quebec filmmaker Sophie Deraspe is not a newcomer, but with this seventh feature which she directed, wrote, and shot, she has reached a broader audience than her previous work, including Rechercher Victor Pellerin (2006), Les signes vitaux (2009), and Les loups (2015). Inspired by Sophocles's drama (referenced by an advertisement on the side of a bus for a production of Œdipe Roi), and filtered through versions by Brecht (quoted on a blackboard) and Anouilh, this filmic adaptation also recalls the scandalous 2008 police shooting of Fredy Villanueva in Montreal. Deraspe reworks these sources through a family of Algerian immigrants who carry the original Sophoclean names and tragic destiny: here, Antigone's eldest brother, Étéocle, is shot by the police, and her delinquent brother Polynice is arrested and will be tried at eighteen as an adult. The brilliant, fiercely loyal Antigone defies the law, devising Polynice's escape from prison by changing clothes with him, helped by her Arabic-speaking grandmother, Ménécée, and her sister Ismène. Antigone and Polynice do more than cross-dress: she is heroically determined and devoted to her family, while he admits to being weak, a "nul" who squanders his sister's sacrifice, resulting in the deportation of all but Ismène, who just wants "une vie normale." Deraspe modernizes other features of the Greek tragedy, using the voices of activist and gang youths as the equivalent of the chorus or "choeur," a word that appears twice on a fence sign, underscoring the reference. The film breaks into sequences suggesting, with split-screens and strident music, the use of social media like Twitter and TikTok-style videos by Antigone's boyfriend Hémon. His graffiti of her, captioned with her catch-phrase "Mon coeur me dit," go viral on social media and television and contribute to the escalating tensions between the protagonist and the authorities, represented by courts or the St. Rose Detention Center for teen girls where Antigone spends much of the film's second half. The red logo of her face, made into wearables, also recalls the "carré rouge" of Quebec's 2012 student protests. The simulated twitter feeds point to racist and sexist attitudes towards immigrants like Antigone, while Hémon and his politician father, Christian, provide a counterweight of kindness, although Antigone's and Hémon's love and loyalty lay bare Christian's political and personal compromises. Deraspe's film, which offers a provocative exploration of urban youth culture, immigrant trauma, gender and social inequality, and media manipulation, was Canada's nomination for best international feature for the 2020 Academy awards, and won three top prizes at Whistler, the 2020 Prix collégial du cinéma québécois, and the Canada Goose for Best Canadian Feature at TIFF. While [End Page 228] revisiting Antigone's inspiring figure of resistance is not new, what makes this film compelling is the performance of the Montreal-born, Tunisian-French lead actress, Nahéma Ricci: her penetrating gaze, enhanced by the vibrant red or blue of her clothing, stays with the viewer long after the film's final freeze frame, recalling in intensity Falconetti's 1928 performance as Dreyer's Jeanne d'Arc. Miléna Santoro Georgetown University (DC) Copyright © 2020 American Association of Teachers of French

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.237
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.003

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.055
GPT teacher head0.288
Teacher spread0.233 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it