Italy

Why do Italians have a longer life expectancy than Americans? Because they have a lot of paid holidays, explains a couple of thirty. Thus, maternity leave lasts five months in Italy, and the newlyweds can leave 15 days for their honeymoon. And by accumulating all their leave, they arrive at about eight weeks a year, and fly away easily to Miami or Zanzibar. That's why, according to Michaël Moore, tanned, relaxed, they always give the impression that they have just made love.


Portugal

Since 2001, the use of all drugs has been completely decriminalized. And Portuguese drug addicts are seen as sick rather than as delinquents. "Hallucinating," for Michael Moore: In the US, having cannabis on you can send you to jail in the most repressive states.

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Norway

Priority to rehabilitation, reflection on his future life after the jail. On the island of Bastøy, murderers, rapists, traffickers, re-learn the "living together" without bars at the windows, cultivating organic vegetables, working at the prison farm, cooking for everyone (the knives are not even planqués). The condemned musicians have created a rock band with guards. Not really the same music as in Guantanamo, the famous American prison.


Iceland

During the severe financial crisis that shook Iceland eight years ago, the only bank that was not engulfed, Audur Capital, is headed by women, and the teams are predominantly female. Leaders oppose "responsible risk" to the methods of male finance. Yes, if the bank Lehman Brothers was called Lehmann sisters ...


la France

Parents of pupils will be delighted to learn that the menus of the cantoche visited by the filmmaker are worthy of a Parisian restaurant, compared to their American equivalents, and are an opportunity to learn about dietary balance. The children make a grimace at the photos of dishes shown by Micheal Moore. The dubious will wonder if the American did not tour during the Week of taste at school, only opportunity in the year to really feast ...

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Photo DR "Where to invade next" Michaël Moore