Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche — Director (6)

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圣但尼怎么了? (2002)
Wesh wesh, qu'est-ce qui se passe? Douban
拉巴赫·阿莫尔-兹梅什 actor: 拉巴赫·阿莫尔-兹梅什 / Ahmed Hammoudi …
other title: Wesh wesh, qu'est-ce qui se passe?
Kamel, a young man from the french ghetto, near Paris, is coming back to France. He was arrested for dealing drugs, he spent five years in jail and was banned from France for two years. He tries, with his family's support, to find a job and live a normal life. But nothing's normal in the ghetto.

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The Temple Woods Gang (2022)
Le gang des bois du temple WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
★ 7.3 7 ratings
other title: 寺木帮 / Le gang des bois du temple …
A retired military man lives in the Temple Woods housing project. Just as he’s burying his mother, his neighbour Bébé, who belongs to a gang of robbers from the area, is preparing to rob the convoy of a wealthy Arab prince... 源自: --------------- Two neighbours, each as overwhelmed as the other: an ex-soldier grieves for his mother alone, while a family father leads his criminal gang into a heist with fatal consequences. French genre cinema in the desaturated colours of a banlieue façade. 源自:

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Story of Judas (2015)
Histoire de Judas Douban
拉巴赫·阿莫尔-兹梅什 actor: Arthur H. Singer
other title: 犹大的故事 / Histoire de Judas
The third project to be selected is Histoire de Judas Iscariote by Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche, which will be the 5th movie by this filmmaker revealed in 2002 by Wesh, Wesh, What's Happening? and who then participated in Un Certain Regard in Cannes (Bled Number One [trailer] in 2006), the Directors' Fortnight (Dernier Maquis [trailer] in 2008) and the competition in Locarno (Smugglers' Songs [trailer] in 2011). His next opus, to be produced by Sarrazink and filmed next autumn with the singer Arthur H in the cast, will tackle a modern historical approach of antique Judaism and primitive Christianity which will rehabilitate Judas, a victim like Jesus of power games, fear and ignorance. The screenplay? In Judaea, under the occupation of Roman forces, a community of men and women is grouped together around the rabbi Jesus of Nazareth, who mesmerizes the crowds. When Jesus chases the merchants out of the temple, Judas Iscariote, a much-loved disciple and intendant, reveals himself as the guardian of the master’s words...

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侠盗之歌 (2012)
Les chants de Mandrin Douban
拉巴赫·阿莫尔-兹梅什 actor: 拉巴赫·阿莫尔-兹梅什 / 伊波利特·吉拉尔多 …
other title: Les chants de Mandrin / Smugglers' Songs
1755年,有法国罗宾汉之称的走私犯路易·曼德林被处以轮碾之刑。他的同伴继续他的事业,并最终促成所谓“侠盗之歌”传奇故事的诞生。

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最后的抵抗分子 (2008)
Dernier maquis Douban
other title: Dernier maquis
Mao has a pallet repair business and a heavy vehicle garage in an anonymous industrial area of a Paris suburb. He decides to open up amosque for his employees, but he designates an imam for it without consulting with them. Some of the workers object to the choice, and aggravated social conflict soon follows. Going against all clichés, after Wesh wesh, qu’est-ce qui se passe ? and Bled Number One, Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche pursues his amusing poetic plunge deep into the heart of the world of Maghreb immigration, and this time, into the working world. His film, themed on the color red, is an involved work as well as a work of art, a forum where civil dialogue and religious questions are expressed with a great freedom. Backing up his extremely personal mise-en-scène, Ameur-Zaïmeche invents characters in rhythm with the movement of the pallets that the actors move about, in the theatrical setting of the company workplace. A poetic masterwork full of humor and tenderness, Dernier maquis was selected for the Directors’ Fortnight this year in Cannes.