The Genie in the Light Bulb (52')
THE GENIE IN THE LIGHT BULB (52')
INFORMATION
FR / 2012 / 52’ / HD / French, English
Productions Campagne Premiere / France 5 / Directed by Martin Meissonnier & Pascal Signolet
Worldwide rights available
TAGS
Asia, ethnography, modernity, travel, decline
SYNOPSIS
Here is the story of the arrival of electricity in Hathine, a tiny, isolated village in the forbidden mountains of Northern Laos, one of the last Communist countries in the world, on the borders of China and Vietnam. Refrigerators will keep food fresh for longer. Children will do their homework under the streetlamps. The first shops strung with multi-coloured lights appear, and in them the first cold drinks that any villager has tasted. Electricity brings progress, unquestionably. But does that progress bring happiness?