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Bookmark this pageLa Faute à Voltaire (2000)
Director: Abdellatif Kechiche
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From Time Out Film Guide
A touch too long, perhaps, but otherwise this account of the experiences of a young North African illegal immigrant in Paris is a very impressive first feature. Dealing with authorities suspicious about his papers, poverty, unemployment, racism, and a couple of tempestuous relationships - the first with a single mum wary of men, the second with an emotionally unstable obsessive (Bouchez in mannered but finally very affecting form) - he struggles to survive in a land that often pays mere lip service to Voltaire's ideals. The acting is great, the gritty social realism compelling but mercifully peppered with humour and vibrant energy, the whole all too credible.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Abdellatif Kechiche
Producer: Jean-François Lepetit
Cast: Sami Bouajla, Elodie Bouchez, Bruno Lochet, Aure Atika, Virginie Darmon, Olivier Loustau, François Gentry, Sami Zitouni full cast
Duration: 130 mins
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