Berlin (AFP)

Raised fist and "yellow vests" for some, the team "Clear history" of the French duo Kerven-Delépine, blew a wind of protest Monday at the Berlinale, with a comedy where three anti-heroes leave in war against the digital giants.

In the running for the Golden Bear, the film brings together the humorist and actress Blanche Gardin, the actors Denis Podalydès and Corinne Masiero.

She wore a yellow knit, sleeveless, that she took part in the film's press conference, in reference to the social movement of the same name that started in November 2018 in France, against the backdrop of rising prices. fuel.

"I think we are all" yellow vests ", at one point we realize that we have to open our mouths. Here, elsewhere in Europe. And things are moving," she launched, after having raised his fist.

For their 10th feature film, Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kerven ("Mammuth") drew on our relationship with the digital world to paint a current picture, between work uberization, exploitation of personal data, development of artificial intelligence .. .

The film follows a mother who is the victim of a sextape blackmail, an over-indebted father whose daughter is the victim of harassment and a driver of hybrid bikes annoyed by his low professional rating.

All three met on a roundabout, one of the places of contestation of the "yellow vests", two years earlier.

Overwhelmed by their money problems, they spend their time on their laptops trying to resell items, respond to the solicitations of direct sellers calling from the other side of the world, compare the rates of mutuals or call toll-free numbers.

Until they decide not to endure anymore and to attack the digital giants directly. For the character of Blanche Gardin, it will be a question of going directly to recover her sextape in a data center in Palo Alto, California.

"It may have been thought that privacy is minimal compared to other more important issues, but it is representative of a vicious circle. The Gafa are huge corporations that control the world and do not pay taxes" , underlines the director Gustave Kerven.

"Today, we all wear surveillance cameras, we have become everyone's instruments of control", adds Blanche Gardin, very much on the bill at the start of the year with two films dealing with digital (" Selfie "and" # JeSuisLà ")

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