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Ghalya Laroix (adaptation)
Release Date:
7 January 2004 (France) more
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12 wins & 4 nominations more
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(3 articles)
37th Montreal Festival of Nouveau Cinema: Abdellatif Kechiche
(From ioncinema. 20 October 2008)
IFC takes critically acclaimed French film with a 'Grain' of salt
(From ioncinema. 24 April 2008)
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Thoughtful but disheartening look at life in the banlieus more (17 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Osman Elkharraz | ... | Krimo |
| Sara Forestier | ... | Lydia |
| Sabrina Ouazani | ... | Frida |
| Nanou Benhamou | ... | Nanou |
| Hafet Ben-Ahmed | ... | Fathi |
| Aurélie Ganito | ... | Magalie |
| Carole Franck | ... | French Professor |
| Hajar Hamlili | ... | Zina |
| Rachid Hami | ... | Rachid |
| Meryem Serbah | ... | Krimo's Mother |
| Hanane Mazouz | ... | Hanane |
| Sylvain Phan | ... | Slam |
 | Olivier Loustau | ... | Policier |
| Rosalie Symon | ... | Policier |
| Patrick Kodjo Topou | ... | Policier |
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Games of Love and Chance (International: English title)
Votre bouche avec la mienne (France) (working title)
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France:117 min | USA:123 min | Argentina:117 min
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Singapore:NC-16 | Hong Kong:III | New Zealand:R13 | Argentina:13 | Finland:K-11 | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud)
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This French film is a quite disheartening look at life in the public housing projects outside Paris. In a crumbling neighborhood with a majority of immigrants from Northern Africa, a high school tries to produce a play by Pierre Marivaux (1688-1763). The heart of the film is the budding romance between the vivacious blonde Lydia (one of the few "native" French living in the neighborhood) and the shy and painfully inarticulate Krimo, who is ridiculized by his thuggish friends for taking a part in the play. All the kids speak in an unintelligible slang, which makes a contrast with the classical French of Marivaux. I wrote it was disheartening (despite not being a drama) because it shows that the marginalized inhabitants of the projects have an almost nil chance of breaking into the mainstream of French society. Thoughtful and worth seeing.