Romane Gueret

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Paris, a working-class neighborhood in the 19th arrondissement. Shaï and Djeneba are 19 years old and have been friends since childhood. One is burdened by an overbearing family. The other by deep loneliness. Over the course of a summer, they work as counselors at a summer camp, far from the tower blocks where they grew up—no longer quite children, yet officially responsible for a group of kids aged 6 to 10. On the cusp of adulthood, they will have to make choices to grow up and reinvent their friendship.Read More »

The story centres on a group of teenagers street cast in their neighbourhood and selected to play in a feature film during the summer. The film tells the story of this film shoot and of the connections that will be formed during it.

Julian (The Film Seeker) on letterboxd wrote:
You’ve certainly seen films about making films before, and you’ve no doubt seen films about troubled inner-city youth before. But save the eye-rolling until after you’ve read about The Worst Ones, because in traversing these clichéd jungles with the sort of rugged, amateurish enthusiasm that would annoy any cynical viewer from the jump, Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret fully embrace one particular advantage that their film has over all those that came before it: the very fact that it did come after all those other films.Read More »