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| Genre: | Art/Foreign |
| Year: | 1995 |
| Rating: | NR |
| Country: | France |
| Cast: | Karim Dridi, Sami Bouajila, Nozha Khouadra, Philippe Ambrosini |
With a realism that can almost be touched and tasted, Karim Dridi - one of France's most exciting new directors - delivers an affecting story of two French-born Tunisian brothers, Ismael (age 25) and Mouloud (age 14), who are trying to forge a home for themselves in France's racist, anti-Arab society.
BYE BYE rides the tension between the personal and the political, between the safety of family and the brutality of the streets, and between a generation of North Africans still attached to their homeland, and that of their French-born children carving a home in a country that does not want them.
Set in the city of Marseilles' Arab/African quarter, BYE BYE offers an unprecendented insider's look into a seemingly unknowable community. For North American audiences, the lives and experiences of Arab people living in contemporary France will serve as a mirror on issues of racism and immigration currently at the center of political and cultural debate in our own society.
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