“The Survivors”: how the director of the conspiracy film Hold-Up Pierre Barnérias returns with a controversial new film ?

L'ancien journaliste est bien connu des réseaux conspirationnistes. MAXPPP MAXPPP – Simone Begin

Pierre Barnérias, ancien journaliste et réalisateur de plusieurs films pointés pour dérives complotistes revient avec un long-métrage. Le 15 mai 2024, il a sorti Les survivantes, qui donne la parole à huit femmes se disant victimes de réseaux pédocriminels.

"Through these testimonies of rare authenticity, we discover the workings which allowed this system to persist without ever being worried", on Allociné, the presentation of the new film by Pierre Barnérias leads us to believe that it is about ;investigative work carried out against all odds and for a good cause.

Pierre Barnérias returns to talk about child crime

The director is regularly presented by his fans as a Prometheus. Once again, he courageously brings the truth. Like the pretensions of the film Hold-Up, released in the middle of a pandemic, which featured testimonies on the lies of the government and international institutions concerning Covid 19.

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Putted numerous times, the film had been widely criticized by the scientific sphere, and even by some of its contributors. The latter felt that their comments had been distorted thanks to editing. The survivors is once again based on testimonies, this time from women who have suffered abuse from child criminal networks .

Women have their say

In the midst of the liberation of speech, the opportunity was great to address the subject. Pierre Barnérias surfs Metoo in a film which features eight women. On Sud Radio, he explains that he feels freer in the cinema than on the small screen: "For 12 years , all my investigations go to the cinema. There is a real freedom, a real point of view. You don't pretend to be objective like you do on television."

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The director is also congratulated in a very laudatory review of his film on France soir, a media owned by one of his close friends , Xavier Azalbert. The latter had notably ensured part of the promotion of Hold-Up.

As a reminder, France soir was formerly a general daily newspaper, which suffered significant losses from 1980. In 2019, its journalists had been fired, and the paper edition was soon replaced by a website fueled by anonymous contributions. Since then, deprived of journalists, he has been criticized and singled out on multiple occasions for the dissemination of false information.