Cholesterol: The Great Bluff
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Description
Cholesterol: The Great Bluff by Anne Georget reopens the long fight over cholesterol, saturated fat, statins, and cardiovascular risk by arguing that a medical consensus hardened around weak assumptions and entrenched interests. Its focus is less on one nutrient than on how public health doctrine, pharmaceutical influence, and selective science can shape what entire populations are told to fear. The documentary is openly revisionist in tone, making its real subject not cholesterol alone but the authority behind mainstream prevention advice.
Director / Filmmaker
Anne Georget
About the Director / Filmmaker
Anne Georget, documentary director and writer, moved from print journalism into television before turning to nonfiction filmmaking in 1991. Film-documentaire.fr identifies her work with individual destinies and social questions, spanning ethics, asylum, medicine, autism, memory, and public health. Also active in authors’ rights through SCAM, she has built a long French documentary practice shaped by investigative reporting, civic concerns, and human-centered inquiry over decades.
Anne Georget, documentary director and writer, moved from print journalism into television before turning to nonfiction filmmaking in 1991. Film-documentaire.fr identifies her work with individual destinies and social questions, spanning ethics, asylum, medicine, autism, memory, and public health. Also active in authors’ rights through SCAM, she has built a long French documentary practice shaped by investigative reporting, civic concerns, and human-centered inquiry over decades.
Topic
Cardiovascular Health, Nutrition, Chronic Illnesses
Who It’s Best For
People trying to re-evaluate cholesterol advice without accepting older diet dogma at face value are the strongest fit here. Another useful audience is viewers sorting through the clash between metabolic arguments, public guidance, and industry-shaped messaging.
Production Company / Studio
Quark Productions, ARTE G.E.I.E
Approach
Working as a revisionist rebuttal, the documentary organizes expert interviews and historical reinterpretations against mainstream cholesterol doctrine. The case is argued with open skepticism toward institutional nutrition science, not with any real performance of neutrality.
Duration
82 Minutes
Year
2016
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