États dâme

In this political drama five leftleaning friends gradually lose heart in the Socialist government elected in 1981 in France One of the five men is a television broadcaster the others are a teacher about to become an academic inspector a tax man the director of a cultural center and a sociologist who is about to step into a ministerial position Their interlocking lives are told in alternating vignettes over a fouryear period and the professions director Jacques Fansten has chosen for his main characters seem to be a comment on the media education budget or finance the arts and government bureaucracy under Socialist rule