Ali Zaoua / Playtime présente ; une coproduction Playtime, TF1 International, Ali N' Productions, Alexis Films, Ace Editing ; avec la participation de Canal+, TPS Cinéma, Gimages 3 ; un scénario de Nathalie Saugeon, Nabil Ayouch ; producteurs délégués, Jean Cottin, Etienne Comar, Antoine Voituriez ; un film de Nabil Ayouch.
Publisher:
Film Movement,
Copyright Date:
2003
Description:
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + insert.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2000. A foreign film (Morocco, Tunisia, France, Belgium) "March 2003"--Disc label. Moünïm Kbab, Mustapha Hansali, Hicham Moussoune, Abdelhak Zhayra, Said Taghmaoui, Amal Ayouch, Mohamed Majd. Originally produced as a motion picture in 2001. A foreign film (Morocco, Tunisia, France, Belgium). Series statement from Film Movement website. Special features: Ali Zaoua trailer, biographies of director & actors ; short film The Architecture of reassurance / HKM Films ; Mike Mills (1999, approximately 24 min.).
Summary:
A group of street urchins living in the hard streets of Casablanca lead lives filled with violence, begging, and indifference. Their bond of friendship and family is cut short when Ali is senselessly killed at the beginning of the film by a blow to the head by a rival gang. His friends decide not to report his death to the police, who would have the boy buried in a potter's field. Instead they decide to give him a worthy burial, to bury Ali on the private island he so often dreamed of. "Architecture of assurance" weaves interviews into the story of a young girl who one afternoon goes exploring in a suburban California neighborhood, where she is utterly convinced that the people she spies on have happier lives than she does.
Series:
[Film Movement series ; v. 1, film 3]
OCLC:
(OCoLC)53067087
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.