A good movie

Once again, it is another really obscure French feature that almost no one here on listal has seen (there are apparently only 2 of us who have watched the damned thing). Back in the mid-90’s, the most influential French movie was obviously ‘La Haine’ which was at the time a huge critical success. Personally, I always had some rather mixed feelings about this classic and, in fact, 2 years later, Jean-François Richet released his own movie about the huge tension in the French suburbs. Of course, you might argue that ‘La Haine’ was better looking and in general better made than this movie but I always thought that the ideas developed in Mathieu Kassovitz’s film were actually rather shallow while, this movie had a much more obvious political angle and that really appealed to me. After this promising debut, many including myself had high hopes for Jean-Francois Richet but those hopes were destroyed by his following directing effort ‘De l'amour’. Even though it was also taking place again in pretty much the same barren Parisian suburbs, the plot and the characters involved were just so underwhelming. Anyway, to conclude, even though this movie was definitely not perfect, I still think it must be the best movie about this subject and it is definitely worth a look.

7/10