Where to Invade Next: Michael Moore is taking Europe's better ideas for governance to the US

Michael Moore wants the US to adopt some of the better ideas for governance he has found in Europe. Helen Barlow talks to him about his first happy movie

WHEN it was announced that Michael Moore would present Where to Invade Next, his first film in six years at the Toronto Film Festival last September, speculation was rife regarding who the director would place in the firing line this time.

Moore, who laces serious subject with humour, put documentary filmmaking on the cinematic map after winning the Cannes Palme d’Or for Farenheit 9/11, his critical look at the presidency of George W Bush and his ‘war on terror’, and he won the documentary Oscar for Bowling for Columbine, about the Columbine high school massacre. Few filmmakers have been as influential.