An exhilarating experience with special relevance to our media-saturated present, Watkins sweeps us up into the events, showing the aspirations and mandates of the revolutionary government, even as the fighting continues that will bring it to an inevitable bloody end. A penetrating critique of modern media, no one who meets the challenge of La Commune will be unchanged by the experience.

WINNER! Best Independent Film, Los Angeles Film Critics Awards

What the Critics are Saying

"BEST FILM OF THE YEAR! Absolutely riveting. " - Village Voice

"ASTONISHING! A massive, heroic achievement." - LA Weekly

"A brilliant, heady, dizzying, immersing experience: a vital piece of filmmaking." - Time Out

"Invigorating, powerful, passionate!" - Variety

"STUNNING! History as reinvented by and for the living." - Boston Phoenix

"Daring and unique." - New York Post

"!" - Christian Science Monitor

"A CALL TO ARMS. Essential viewing!" - The New York Times

"The most audacious piece of movie writing since, well, maybe ever." - Village Voice