Synopsis

About the director

Abdellatif Kechiche (b. 1960) is a screenwriter and director who started out as an actor. He debuted in film in 1984 with Un thé a la menthe, and has also been seen in, among others, Mutisme, Les innocents, Un vampire au paradis, Bezness, Le secret de policinelle, Marteau rouge and La boite magique. He came out as a director with La faute à Voltaire (2001); L’Esquive is his second feature. ‘People often talk to me about an ethnographic film, yet my approach is totally different,’ the director said. ‘I don’t aspire to transcribing blocks of raw reality. Instead, along with my actors and crew, I reconstruct a world that is ours. It is fictitious but crossed by flashes of emotion that bring it to life. L’Esquive was a project I had put forward a long time before La faute à Voltaire, in 1993-94. At the time, no television channels or producers believed in it. There has been such a stigmatizing of poor areas in the suburbs that it’s become almost revolutionary to place any action there, unless it’s related to gang rapes, drugs, girls in veils or forced marriages. I wanted to talk about love and theatre for a change.’

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