Amin, an aspiring screenwriter living in Paris, returns home for the summer Read More »
Tag Archives: Abdellatif Kechiche
Poetical Refugee (2000) Abdellatif Kechiche, Sami Bouajila, Élodie Bouchez, Bruno Lochet
Like a Candide dreaming of Eldorado, Jallel lands in France, hoping to try his luck. Read More »
L’esquive / Games of Love and Chance (2003) Abdellatif Kechiche, Osman Elkharraz, Sara Forestier, Sabrina Ouazani, Drama, Romance
In the slums of Paris, a group of students – primarily North African and Southeast Asian immigrants Read More »
Bezness (1992) Nouri Bouzid, Abdellatif Kechiche, Jacques Penot, Ghalia Lacroix, Drama
Roufa (Abdel Kechiche) is an attractive young man, and that works out well for him because he is a practitioner of “bezness:” he’s a sex-for-hire boy for the tourists who come to Tunisia. His girlfriend deeply resents his having sex with other women but doesn’t seem much bothered that a rich German man he’s been having sex with is hoping to sponsor him in Europe.
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