Public housing project just outside Paris. , written and directed by 29-year-old Mathieu Kassovitz, is set in a In their depictions of young lives wasting away in an environment ofĭirectly parallel the sensibility that permeates In the 1990s, where guns, drive-by shootings, and 'gangsta'Īttitude are as much a part of everyday life as flipping on a television The latter are gutsy, non-romanticized portraits of urban African-America (whose characters are misunderstood upper-class Southern Californians), Is an instant classic of its genre, ranking alongside adolescent angstĭramas from Nicholas Ray's 1950s breakthrough, As such, the film is an explosive, cutting-edge portrait of May be a French-language film, set in a specific place and time, but itsĭepiction of alienated, dead-end teens who clash with authority is Hammerschmidt, T., 'Filme des Monats,' in , and Some Thoughts on Scorsese's Children,' in Trofimenkov, M., 'Predchuvstvie prazhdanskoi voiny,' in
Trofimenkov, M., 'O nenavistio nenavisti,' in Leahy, J., 'The Children of Godard and 90s TV,' in īest Director, Cannes Film Festival, 1995 Best Young Film, European FilmĪwards, 1995 Best French Film, Best Producer, and Best Editor, Cesar Productions, and Gramercy Pictures black and white, 35 mm running time:ĩ5 minutes length: 2,731 meters. Les Productions Lazennec, with Studio Canal+, La Sept Cinema, Kasso Inc.
