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THE GOLDMAN CASE

Monday, June 10, 7:30 p.m.

2023, 115 mins. Directed by Cédric Kahn. In French with English subtitles. 

Cédric Kahn’s riveting courtroom drama, a hit at Cannes last year, is set in Paris in 1975, depicting the real case of Jewish activist Pierre Goldman. Sentenced to life imprisonment for armed robberies, one of which resulted in the death of two women, Goldman pleads not guilty to murder. The court proceedings transform Goldman into a hero of the intellectual left. Ever the agitator, the mercurial Goldman throws his own trial into chaos, risking a death sentence. The Goldman Case paints a portrait of a militant revolutionary, but also of a society torn apart by patterns of racism and injustice that are still virulent today.