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Videocracy
Directed by
Erik Gandini
Not Rated
2009
85m
Documentary
6.5
67%
39%
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A look at segments of the Italian population who are consumed with celebrity worship.
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Cast of Videocracy
Silvio Berlusconi
Silvio Berlusconi
Flavio Briatore
Flavio Briatore
Fabrizio Corona
Fabrizio Corona
Lele Mora
Lele Mora
Simona Ventura
Simona Ventura
Marella Giovannelli
Marella Giovannelli
Rick Canelli
Rick Canelli
Videocracy Ratings & Reviews
Shared Darkness
Brent Simon
Less than the sum of its parts; colorful, but not quite a forceful enough inquisition into the go-go, power-grab pop intersection of fame, tabloidism and information management to connect in lasting emotional fashion.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Videocracy is a queasy-funny and unapologetically biased look at the televisual world that the Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, has created.
AV Club
Noel Murray
If a team of clever screenwriters tried to script a cautionary tale about the politics of fame (and the fame of politics), they likely couldn't come up with anything odder or more apt than Erik Gandini's documentary Videocracy.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Videocracy makes spooky comedy of a nation's addiction to fame.
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Paul Knoll
Celebrity and the PR politico
Boston Phoenix
Jeffrey Gantz
Italian-born director Erik Gandini's damning mess of a documentary purports to reveal that Italy is TV- and celebrity-besotted -- which is true but not new.
Los Angeles Times
Sheri Linden
Pulsing with incredulity and dread, it's less a fully developed argument than the seed of one.
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
Politicians of the world are the celebrity faces of multi-national global corporations that call the shots. If that's news to you then sure, go see this documentary about Italy's variety of such exploitation.
NYC Movie Guru
Avi Offer
Marginally engaging and amusing, but often lazy, meandering, unenlightening, excessively facile and underwhelming.
Boxoffice Magazine
Steve Ramos
Gandini does a great job keeping his colorful subjects front and center. While he does not star oncamera like Michael Moore, Gandini's creative hand is felt throughout the film's swift 84 minutes as its English-language narrator.
Monsters and Critics
Ron Wilkinson
A documentary that wakes us up to the pitfalls of politically controlled television and then puts us to sleep watching the people producing it.
Sly Fox
Kam Williams
A chilling, cautionary expose' of Orwellian dimensions.
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager
A stylized, scattershot inquiry into Italy's TV-dominated culture, Videocracy is a portrait of 21st-century media fascism.
Village Voice
Ella Taylor
A stale vibe is only one of the problems pervading Erik Gandini's documentary about the pathological symbiosis between unregulated media control and celebrity mania in Italy.
Film-Forward.com
Kent Turner
Less an indictment than an obvious expos, Videocracy is foreplay to larger issues, a sideshow to the larger story of Berlusconi's control of the media.
NewsBlaze
Prairie Miller
If you think TV significantly lowers a country's collective IQ, imagine a vast idiot box theme park nation like Italy, whose leader, Burlusconi, is also the reigning media empire mogul. A scary, ruthless extreme celebrity vision of a soulless TV culture.
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Louis Proyect
Despite glossing over the deeper social and political explanations for the rise of Berlusconi, this is a useful if not amusing introduction to a truly repellent and dangerous politician.
ComingSoon.net
Edward Douglas
A fascinating film, but for every interesting idea explored, there are just as many that don't seem to have as much relevance; the film is never focused enough to be wholly effective.
Filmcritic.com
Chris Cabin
In comparison, Jersey Shore looks like something that might appear at Lincoln Center.
Compuserve
Harvey S. Karten
Erik Gandini's documentary indicts Italy's prime minister for controlling the lion's share of TV stations and magazines but less convincingly connects the dots between the PM's media empire and his political power.
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