What is Propaganda ?

I guess some films hit us as Propaganda more than others when 1. they seem to believe (or pretend to) 100% in their message 2. said message seem to belong to a whole different ideological set of narrative.

It's as if their message, conceived to hit another brain than ours, was suddenly naked, to be seen in plain sight, for the outsider brain. And most of the times, that nakedness blinds us foreigners. It sheds a…

The inevitable mixed feelings are actually very hard to explain to anyone who doesn't know OSS117 or who decided to be prejudiced against it without understanding the peculiar equilibrium the first one achieved.

Adapted from tacky material (some kind of pre-James Bond pulpy novels), the movie series with Dujardin, relaunched by Hazanavicius and writer Halin, is part spoof, part satire : it reproduces the French zeitgeist of the times (50s for the first one, 60s for the 2nd and early…