Before making his Cannes Jury Prize winner Les Misérables, director Ladj Ly had been thinking about the project for over 10 years. Distributed by Amazon Studios, France’s Oscar entry for Best Inter…
, director Ladj Ly had been thinking about the project for over 10 years.
Distributed by Amazon Studios, France’s Oscar entry for Best International Feature Film was inspired by the riots that occurred in the suburbs of Paris in 2005, which would long leave a mark on Ly’s own neighborhood of Montfermeil. “2005 was really…like a revolution for us, especially in these neighborhoods. The young people in these neighborhoods continue to be abandoned, continue to be forgotten,” the director told Deadline last night, following an Awardsline screening of the film.
“That was sad because we lost two kids. One was the brother of my friend,” co-star Djibril Zonga added. “We grew up together, so it’s going to be in our minds for [a] long [time].”follows three members of Montfermeil’s Anti-Crime Brigade, who get caught up in chaos following a violent conflict with local youth. Based on Ly’s 2017 short film of the same name, the feature-length film emerged as a result of the cop watching and documentary filmmaking he had done following the riots.
“Cop watching entails watching the police officers and seeing their behaviors in these neighborhoods which are supposed to be ‘difficult neighborhoods.’ One day, I filmed a real police brutality, and that’s when it all started,” Ly explained. “That video that I filmed, I broadcasted it on the internet, and as a result, the two policemen who were involved in the brutality were suspended, and that’s the very first time that ever happened in France.
For Zonga, the greatest challenge came in finding a way into the character of Gwada—a corrupt member of the Anti-Crime Brigade, whose actions result in a riot. “He is between the youth and the police, because he grew up with them, and now, he’s like a traitor for them,” the actor reflected. “ I hated cops [growing up], and to play a cop, I think it was the biggest challenge for me.”
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