Shéhérazade

I'm not really one for love stories, but this one has an edge and tells a good street-story. Definitely worth watching.

There is no way anyone who hasn't grown up in France can understand the nuances this film offers. So much is in the language and in the delivery that you can't understand through subtitles.

Having grown up in the 20eme of Paris, the slang and accents hit home and truly carries this amazing film.

If you think these kids are trying too hard, it's cuz you don't have the perspective of where these kids come from. Everything in this film is genuine and true to the way minorities communicate in the inner cities of France.

If you care about French film, this is indispensable.

The guy is really captivating and plays a wonderful role. The girl is not typecasted right at all and she devalues the story. The story is pretty simple but because of the acting and the setting it takes you in from the beginning. Streetlife is depicted really well. A real gem.

I write while I'm moved after seeing this great movie. A jewel of modern neo-realism very well done, editing, photography, dialogues and above all the performance of the young protagonist are really excellent. The gangster story in the first two acts is really tense, moreover full of desolation and misery. The surprising and courageous ending, on the other hand, tightens the heart and leaves room for true love against all expectations, against the will of all, at the high price of suffering the consequent repercussions. A redemption that proves to be the only way out. the salvation that projects the boy to mutation, to adult transformation.

This French movie is right in the modern fashion way of filming that we see since a dozen years now. A feature which looks like the real life, for instance as people really talk in actual situations, not as like in usual movies. This is about a petty thug, just released from jail, and who falls in love with a petty Hooker. Moving story, very simple, and only enhanced b this terrific true life dialogues. But the lead character seems a little annoying although.