The German title, DER SOLDAT MONIKA makes it clear immediately: someone here is both she and he. And that’s not all: in existential and political issues too, Monika Donner appears to take opposing positions. The filmmaker Paul Poet has been working for four years on a portrait of the former Defence Ministry official and military strategist, the anarchist and individualist, left-wing queer and right-wing Covid activist Monika Donner. In an attempt to do justice to a personality full of facets and contradictions, he has created a wild collage which also reflects a period of irrationality and declining rigor in the media and politics.

An interview with Paul Poet about My Talk With Florence, screened at FID Marseille section Histoires de Portraits.