Kim Kardashian Theory

Jan 10, 2024

★ 4.8

Overview

Kim Kardashian is the embodiment of our times. She's a total social figure. To analyze her is to talk about ourselves, our relationship with social networks, capitalism and aesthetic standards. Through the eyes of journalists Nesrine Slaoui and Guillaume Erner, this film proposes a theory in the zeitgeist, crossed by questions of race and gender. Journalist and sociologist Guillaume Erner wonders why Kim Kardashian is the most followed woman in the world on social networks "when she does nothing". With the help of journalist and director Nesrine Slaoui, he paints a portrait of this "total social character", who is famous because of... her fame. Fashion icon, star of a never-ending reality TV family saga, savvy businesswoman, future lawyer and activist outraged by the state of American prisons, the beautiful Kim, who is said to be tempted by a political destiny, is in fact not idle at all...

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Federation Studios

ARTE

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Cast

Narrator

Guillaume Erner

Narrator

Nesrine Slaoui

Self

Meredith Jones

Self

Sam Riviere

Self

Ibtisam Essaidi

Self (archive)

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