PLOT: The last days of Jesus into Jerusalem, from the perspective of an unexpected Judas, presented as the closest of his disciples.

Histoire.de.Judas.2015.Rabah.Ameur-Zaimeche.DVDRip.DD5.1.x264.mkv

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Language(s):French
Subtitles:English, French [SDH]

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Synopsis:
A retired army man lives in the Temple Woods housing project outside Paris, where his young neighbor belongs to a local gang about to rob the convoy of an Arab prince.

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Runtime: 	1 h 53 min
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Language(s):French, English
Subtitles:English (Hardcoded)

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Synopsis:
Halfway between documentary and fiction, ’Wesh wesh’ is a take on the everyday life of an immigrant family which is struggling to integrate into France or, rather into the ’Cite des Bosquets’ a low-income housing project in the Parisian suburbs. Like every district, it is a world of its own, with its rules and values. Mousse, the younger brother has understood how it works there. He has integrated a gang, and deals everyday with small time drug trafficking and protects his territory. On the other hand, his older brother who just came back after 2 years in prison, wants to start a normal life and integrate into society. He understands soon enough that it is hard to succeed behind the walls of ‘Les Bosquets’. He tries to find a job, with the help of his family. But without ID papers, and with the police after him, he is stuck in the neighborhood, spending time with the street kids. One day, he finds a fishing rod, and escapes from the city, going fishing in a lake, close to where he lives…

Moving and touching, this movie does not try to be an impressive fictional tale about the ghettos, but gives an exact testimony of the lives of society’s left behind who survive through solidarity.

(if you liked Mathieu Kassovitz’ movie LA HAINE, you should watch WESH WESH – an “insider” point of view)

1.26GB | 1h 24m | 720×384 | mkv

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Language:French,Arabic
Subtitles:English

The post Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche – Wesh wesh, qu’est-ce qui se passe? (2001) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
After the execution of Louis Mandrin, famous outlaw and popular hero of the mid-eighteenth century, his companions risk the adventure of a new campaign of smuggling in the provinces of France. Under the protection of their weapons, smugglers organize unauthorized markets, near the villages, where they sell tobacco, fabrics and precious goods. They write songs in honor of Mandrin, print them and distribute them to the kingdom’s farmers…

3.69GB | 1h 32m | 1280×688 | mkv

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Language:French
Subtitles:English

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SYNOPSIS
The word bled in Bled Number One, the title of Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche’s follow-up to his well-regarded debut Wesh-Wesh (What’s Going On?) in 2001, translates roughly as Hicksville. Which is precisely where Kamel ends up after being deported from France to Algeria, the land of his fathers, after doing time for robbery.

Bled is a finely observed slice of life shot in a low-key semi-documentary style. The latest in a run of French-made movies dealing with Franco-Algerian cross-currents, it speaks volumes about the conditions of life in today’s Algeria and should play well in festivals and in the Arabic-speaking world.

Ameur-Zaimeche, as Kamel, plays the male lead as he did in Wesh whose protagonist also is a young Franco-Algerian recently released from prison. But where the earlier film deals with inner-city issues in France, Bled takes a cold-eyed look at life on the other side of the water.

Ameur-Zaimeche’s direction is unfussy, favoring a quietly reflective mood with slow fades and several long takes of exteriors in dying light. He is never judgmental, but it’s clear where his sympathies lie: In the conflict between tradition and modernity, at least in this corner of the Arab-Islamic world, the latter has a lot of catching up to do. The situation of women who have acquired Western tastes — like a girl who, in the hospital where she has been taken after an abortive suicide attempt, sweetly sings the Billie Holiday classic Don’t Explain — is particularly delicate. (B. Besserglik, Hollywood Reporter)

1.16GB | 1h 37m | 640×352 | avi

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Language:French
Subtitles:English

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Au fond d’une zone industrielle à l’agonie, Mao, un patron musulman, possède une entreprise de réparation de palettes et un garage de poids-lourds. Il décide d’ouvrir une mosquée et désigne sans aucune concertation l’imam…

Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche has a way of framing shots that can make an industrial landscape look like an art project. The dominant images in Dernier Maquis are of rows of carefully stacked red pallets towering in a truck yard located on the outskirts of Paris, where most of the film takes place. Under the direction of Ameur-Zaïmeche, these unaesthetic objects become fascinating to contemplate. Since his visual approach exhibits so strong a sense of control, it is fitting that he cast himself as the company boss. The yard workers call the boss “Mao,” as his leadership style feigns benevolence to keep them from organizing for better wages.

Like most of the Arab and African workers in the yard, the boss is Muslim. His latest strategy is to convert an empty room into a mosque where the workers can pray. As much as any pious aim, he seems motivated to calm tensions through prayer. The workers appreciate the chance to worship, but they see his mosque-building efforts as an attempt to dodge meeting their other demands. They argue among themselves, tending to divide by ethnicity, over whether the boss has the right to pick their imam and if they should form a union.

The same careful attention that Ameur-Zaïmeche applies to visuals, he also gives to the film’s sound design. He uses mechanical noise the way other directors use music to accentuate mood, from the roar of an airplane flying overhead to the warning beep of a forklift backing up. Against this soulless backdrop, the humanity and individuality of each character gradually emerge. Titi is a somewhat simple-minded Islamic convert deliberating over the need to be circumcised. The lumbering worker named Giant gets spooked over a large rodent. The imam grapples with maintaining loyalty to both the boss and the workers. The mechanics Jamil and Bachir stir the discontent towards a strike.

Ameur-Zaïmeche places these characters in striking tableaux that emphasize how they are affected by their environment. The towers of pallets loom like walls, entrapping everyone in an inevitable struggle for power. (Cameron Bailey)

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Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

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