Country: France
Year: 2003
Duration: 117'
A group of young people from the banlieue of Paris are getting
ready for their end-of-the-school-year performance of The Game of Love
and Chance by Marivaux. Fifteen-year-old Krimo has bought the role of
Harlequine from a classmate, since he is ready to do anything to be able
to act alongside the girl he is fallen in love with, the beautiful
Lydia. The girl seems attracted by Krimo but she isn't sure of her
feelings for him yet. From sentimental confessions to endlessly
conversations, to awkward courtships, with this film the Director
invites the spectators to share the life of adolescents in a Paris
suburb, with their slang, their system of values and their fantasies.
"I am asking out loud for their right to have an ordinary life, far from
the offensive 'clichés' which present them as victims or delinquents.
The film can be considered as a request for the right to a clear
representation of how things are." (A. Kechiche)
Biography
film director
Abdellatif Kechiche
Abdellatif Kechiche (Tunis, 1960) moved to Nice in 1966 and during the mid-1980's he came to the attention of Directors like André Téchiné and Abdelkrim Bahlouf for his acting skills. In 2000 he debuted as a Director with Blame It on Voltaire, which received the prize for best first film in Venice and the Young Audience Award.
FILMOGRAFIA
La faute à Voltaire (Tutta colpa di Voltaire, 2000), L'Esquive (La schivata, 2003).
TFF
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