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Cast And CrewStarring: Jamel Debbouze,Roschdy Zem,
Sami Bouajila,Chafia Boudraa,Bernard Blancan
Director:Rachid Bouchareb
Writer: Rachid Bouchareb
Studio: Tessalit Productions
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Rating:NR for not rated.
Runtime: 2 hours 18 minutes
Release Date:November 3rd, 2010
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Movie Plot Summary:
Written and directed by Rachid Bouchareb, the film is a dramatic telling of three Algerian brothers' struggle for independence from France after WWII, and is a continuation of Bouchareb's Academy Award nominated Days of Glory.
After losing their family home in Algeria, three brothers and their mother are scattered across the globe. Messaoud joins the French army fighting in Indochina; Abdelkader becomes a leader of the Algerian independence movement in France and Saïd moves to Paris to make his fortune in the shady clubs and boxing halls of Pigalle. Gradually, their interconnecting destinies reunite them in the French capital, where freedom is a battle to be fought and won
Outside the Law: Synopsis:From writer-director Rachid Bouchareb (Days of Glory aka Indigenes) comes the film Outside the Law, the story of three brothers who fight for Algeria's independence from France after World War II. After losing their family home in Algeria, three brothers are scattered across the globe. Messaoud joins the French army fighting in Indochina; Abdelkader becomes a leader of the Algerian independence movement; Said moves to Paris to make his fortune in the shady clubs and boxing halls of Pigalle. Gradually, their interconnecting destinies reunite them in the French capital, where freedom is a battle to be fought and won.
Outside the Law: Movie Review:
While watching this film, if you had no idea who in Europe was fighting whom from 1945 to 1962, you'd likely think that Arab terrorists were doing battle today. "Outside the Law" has many scenes of violence inside Paris between Muslim groups and non-Muslim French, so people without a firm sense of history but who watch CNN deal with current topics could not be blamed for making that mistake. Actually, the relationships depicted by Rachid Bouchareb, who wrote and directs this sizzling film, pit Algerian nationalists against the French government, events that ultimately speeded up the process of independence for Algeria in 1962. It all goes to show that, if you pardon the hoary expression, "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter." An audience, even one of Europeans and Americans, could not today be blamed for rooting for the Algerians fighting to free their country from French colonialism, while in the same regard, the very people who cheered the "freedom fighters" in 1945-1962 would call them "terrorists" today.
This is not to say that the violence inflicted by the Algerian nationalists was justified, or that the end justified the means, but ideas aside, "Outside the Law" is far from a dull history lesson. If parts of the film employ stiff dialogue, that's all in the service of educating an audience that may not know much about the events. For example, in the opening scene, an Algerian family in 1925 is thrown off its land in favor of a French settler, the head of household telling the police, "I've lived here always. My ancestors lived here. How can I feed my family if I am forced off the land?"
Bouchareb provides plenty of visceral excitement that will remind the audience of police dramas like "Bonnie and Clyde" but which will be compared by those hip to history with Gillo Pontecorvo's 1966 masterwork "The Battle of Algiers." Virtually all of Bouchareb's film, though, take place in Paris, as the war for Algerian Independence was fought not only in the colonies but in the home country as well.
No sooner had the French been tossed out of Indochina in 1954-with quite a few Algerians fighting on the French side-than they now had to contend with the potential loss of another colony. So sensitive are the French even today about those defeats that, word is, when "Outside the Law" was shown at the Palais during the Cannes Festival, the French posted gendarmes around the theater for fear of a riot by French, who don't want to be reminded of the tragic events.
In Bouchareb's tale, an Arab family is thrown off their ancestral land in the wide open Algerian spaces in 1925 because the law allowed French settlers to take possession. Three brothers from the family, Saïd (Jamel Debouze), Messaoud (Roschdy Zem), and Abdelkader (Sami Bouajila) work out their relationships with the colonial power in their own ways. Saïd is interested mostly in money. He hangs around the Place Pigalle, pimps some women, runs a prospering casino and manages an Algerian fighter whom he wants to set up in a heavyweight title bout with a Frenchman. (By Frenchman I'm referring throughout as non-Muslim French). He smokes cigars and drinks, both violations of the code of the FLN, the Algerian National Liberation Front. By contrast Messaoud and Abdelkader, the latter more than the former, are bent on violence to wear down the morale of the French, the shootings and explosions to take place in France rather than Algeria. Struggling against the FLN are the army and police, the local police force being led by Colonel Faivre (Bernard Blancan), an officer in France's war with Indochina and now a top detective.
While women play a passive role for the most part, one blonde is in love with Messaoud and joins the FLN cause, a struggle that is financed and given weapons by a group in Frankfurt, Germany, while an Algerian woman is married off to Messaoud but has nothing to say. Christophe Beaucarne's camera is spot-on, taking in the action without resorting to the hackneyed use of grainy cinema-verité treatment.
The film earns its 138 minutes' length, the time passing swiftly given director Bouhareb's view to give the audience a lavish, cinematic treatment of a period in French and Algerian history probably unknown for the most part outside those countries and not at all by those born after the war for independence. As a former teacher of Social Studies, I'm thinking: Wouldn't it be grand if European history teachers could use both historical fiction and cinematic treatments like this to bring history to life?
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