Blame it on Voltaire

La faute à Voltaire, feature film, 2000.

DIRECTED BY: Abdellatif Kechiche

Blame it on Voltaire

CAST:
Sami Bouajila (Jallel),
Élodie Bouchez (Lucie),
Bruno Lochet (Franck),
Aure Atika (Nassera),
Olivier Loustau (Antonio)

SCRIPT:
Abdellatif Kechiche

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Dominique Brenguier,
Marie Spencer

Synopsis:
Hoping for a better life, a young Tunisian Jallel arrives to Paris. In order to obtain a residence permit, he lied about being a refugee from Algeria, but since he has no required documents his life is not easy. He sleeps in shelters for refugees, earns money illegally by selling fruit and slowly finds friends among the unemployed French and descendants of immigrants around him.

color, 35 mm, 130 min