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Where the Heart Is (1998)
Directed by Robert Guédiguian
Overview
From the director of Marius et Jeannette, this story of two working-class families is a fable with an optimist streak. A young black man, Francois, is wrongly accused of rape by a racist policeman. The story is told in voiceover by his childhood friend, neighbor, and the mother of his future child, Clementine, who is white. The city is Marseilles as in the previous film, symbolic with its churches, prisons and ruins. Except in this film, director Robert Guediguian also ventures outside, taking the story to Sarajevo; two different cities, one devastated by war, the other by a bad economy and unemployment. A la Place du coeur won a Special Jury Prize at the 1998 San Sebastian Film Festival and was also shown at the 1998 Toronto Film Festival and the 1998 Montreal Film Festival.
Length 113 minutes
Actors
Ariane Ascaride | Christine Brücher | Jean-Pierre Darroussin | Gérard Meylan | Alexandre Ogou | Laure Raoust | Véronique Balme | Pierre Banderet | Patrick Bonnel | Djamal Bouanane | Jacques Boudet | Guillaume Cantillon | Jean-Jérôme Esposito | Marius Grygielewicz | Aurore Mensah | Beata Nilska | Laetitia Pesenti | Jacques Pieiller | Hélène Surgère | Abdramane Diakite | Fiona Kendirian | Sofia Besnard | Amy Gassama | Lisa Lucciardi | Benjamin Piat