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...largely become radical-propaganda tracts, were shut down; they will probably not print again until new moderate editors are installed. Strict rules were also promulgated to curb armed civilians, who helped create the atmosphere of anarchy. "An armed civilian is a dead civilian," warned one commando officer. President Costa Gomes even mentioned the possibility of holding parliamentary elections. The left would almost certainly be defeated in the voting, as it was in the election of a constituent assembly last April...
Directed by COSTA-GAVRAS...
Screenplay by JORGE SEMPRUN and COSTA-GAVRAS...
Everything in Special Section is based on recent history. The events bear both the sting and the awkward com edy of truth. But unlike Z, a previous Semprun - Costa-Gavras collaboration based on the 1963 assassination of Gregorios Lambrakis, a Greek politician, Special Section lacks the narrative drive that can make a good melodrama with political meaning. Instead, the film is a puppet show of moral indignation...
Such special sections did exist in France during the war; it is also true, as a postscript informs us, that not all of those who presided over them have been brought to account. But Costa-Gavras and Semprun only make the outrageous seem petty, and tragedy a thing of no greater human consequences than an other bad movie...