a1277: New Peck film premiere in London (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Tttnhm@aol.com

Profit and Nothing But! - UK Premiere
Raoul Peck
France
2001
57m
video
documentary


Monday, 25th March, 21.00
Wednesday, 27th March, 18.15
at
the Ritzy Cinema
Brixton, London, UK

Human Rights Watch film festival

Who said that the economy serves mankind? What is this world where one third of the population, in the rich countries, or more precisely the wealthiest two percent in the world, control everything? A world where the economy is law, where this law of the strongest is imposed on the rest of humanity? Why do we accept this cynical and immoral state of being? What happened to Solidarity? And to the militants? These are the questions PROFIT AND NOTHING BUT! asks. Capitalism has succeeded in convincing us that it is the only truth, the only morality we need. It has even convinced its opponents that their failure lies within the normal scheme of things. Raoul Peck (director of LUMUMBA) contrasts this heavily documented illumination of the capitalist system with the devastating reality in his native land, Haiti "a country that doesn't exist, where intellectual discussion has become a luxury."


Distributor - First Run/Icarus Films