Le chant d'Ahmed

It is real dificult to write why I love this film. For the acting of Mohammad Sadi, for the clash between a young man perspective about life against the one of an old man, for the sacrifice of Ahmed or for his song. Off course, but the film gives more than the words are capable to testify. A sort of bitterness in happy light, a sort of precise definition of life. Hopeful, nostalgic, clear to obscure. A film who you feel it. And it is enough.

A very close to reality tale, set in Paris, showing the daily life of an old Arab worker, employee in a bath shower facility monitored by Mairie de Paris - Paris City Hall organization and administration. It is mainly destined to homeless, wagrants, poor people who want to stay clean, worthy. It is a social and very accurate analysis of the way many people now survive in French big cities. And besides, it tells the moving friendship between an old timer and a young employee to whom he teaches the job, cleaning the shower tubs. So you have here a social documentary and a too short and poignant relationship between two generations; the old man could be the young man's grandfather. The weak link is the acting, I think it is a bit unconvincing with some dialogues.... Not overall acting, just dialogues. People don't speak like this in real life.