Beur sur la ville
- warm
- kinetic
- gentle
- intimate
- funny
Cosy, breathless, gentle comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →25-year-old Khalid Belkacem has failed at everything: college education, summer camp instructor's permit, driver's license, and even his BCG. He never expected to become the first "positive discrimination" member of the police force. But as his mother says: "That's France for you! A country where everyone has a chance."
Our read · Beur sur la ville (2011) reads as a cosy, breathless, grounded comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Beur sur la ville
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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