The 10th District Court: Moments of Trial

Respected documentarian Depardon received special permission to film French criminal trials in session. The results, presented in his deceptively flat style, are overwhelming. American audiences may first think of Judge Judy, but the heartbreaking self-deceptions and naïveté displayed by some of the defendants are more in keeping with the humanity of the French schoolhouse doc To Be and to Have. Don’t miss this.