French director Basile Carré-Agostini in his charming documentary “A Guide to Love and Fighting Capitalism” tells the story of the married couple of sociologists Monique and Michel Pinçon-Charlot known for their research on inequality in society and scientific works in which they mercilessly dissect the one percent ultra-wealthy. Distributed by Zagreb’s Restart, the film is shown in independent cinemas across the country on the eve of the Labor Day weekend.
Monique and Michel’s love spans more than fifty years and most of that time they worked together at the prestigious National Center for Scientific Research, until they retired 15 years ago to enjoy a good, quiet life in the suburbs of Paris. But how do you relax in retirement when you have to fight against capitalism? Or as Monique says: “Today, as yesterday, there is no other solution than revolution.”
The real retirement of this married couple of activists will have to wait a little longer, because protests break out every now and then in the French capital, and their mission is to explain to young people the structure of social inequality and the patterns that ensure that the rich become even richer, to study new social movements and see who they are. Who, possibly, on their backs and in their heads, can bring forth social rebellion and resistance to the existing situation.
