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12 biopolitical dirty movies: 7 publications

Top 12 biopolitical dirty movies: The Square (number 6)

 

Fabio Rocha - 15-07-2025

Fabio Rocha mercilessly dissects the anatomy of biopolitical cinema with Ruben Östlund's first film to win the Palme d'Or to hand, in the latest addition to his series of Foucault-inspired dirty movies [Read More...]

Top 12 biopolitical dirty movies: The Second Mother (number 7)

 

Fabio Rocha - 03-06-2025

Power relations between employer and maid inside the Brazilian home are put to the test, in Fabio Rocha's latest Foucault-inspired movie (with a touch of Achille Mbembe thrown in for extra flavour) [Read More...]

Top 12 biopolitical dirty movies: Amour (number 8)

 

Fabio Rocha - 13-05-2025

The fifth entry in Fabio Rocha's Foucault-inspired movies deals with biopolitics, necropolitics, the insurgency of care, the various pillars supporting the management of life [Read More...]

Top 12 biopolitical dirty movies: Drive My Car (number 9)

 

Fabio Rocha - 08-04-2025

This is the fourth entry in Fabio Rocha's Foucault-inspired movies: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi's ode to listening, a Hiroshima-set drama featuring post-atomic bodies and silence as a resistance weapon [Read More...]

Top 12 biopolitical dirty movies: All Quiet on the Western Front (number 10)

 

Fabio Rocha - 09-03-2025

The third entry in Fabio Rocha's Foucault-inspired series of raw, visceral and gritty movies is Edward Berger's anti-war classic, a movie about honour being replaced by fear, and soldiers being robbed of their individuality [Read More...]

Top 12 biopolitical dirty movies: A Separation (number 11)

 

Fabio Rocha - 09-02-2025

The second entry in Fabio Rocha's his Foucault-inspired series of raw, visceral and gritty movies is a late Iranian New Wave film permeated by [Read More...]

Top 12 biopolitical dirty movies: Anora (number 12)

 

Fabio Rocha - 06-01-2025

Brazilian filmmaker and researcher Fabio Rocha begins his Foucault-inspired series of raw, visceral and gritty movies with a dirty movie that rocked Cannes and much of the globe in 2024 [Read More...]