We Review: A Fascinating Doc Exposing the Fractures in French Society Along One Railway Line We Review: A Fascinating Doc Exposing the Fractures in French Society Along One Railway Line
An outwardly modest observational doc that builds cleverly into an epic intellectual interrogation of France s multicultural project.
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Director: Alice Diop
With: Alice Diop, Ismael Soumaïla Sissoko, N’deye Sighane Diop, Pierre Bergounioux, Marcel Balnoas, Ethan Balnoas. (French dialogue)
Running time: Running time: 115 MIN.
Sarah Blum
The public, the private and the deeply personal run on parallel tracks in French director Alice Diop’s documentary “We,” a series of vignettes of life along the RER B, a railway line running through the suburbs and exurbs of Paris out to the surrounding countryside. But as it gains momentum, this deceptively cunning documentary which out of a lineup full of showier titles won the top prize in Berlin