More than 2.2 million spectators in theaters and seven César nominations.
It is not
Razzia sur la chnouf
but
BAC nord
, one of the successes of French cinema in the Covid era.
The film by Cédric Jimenez
(La French),
released last August, is inspired by the true story of the Marseille "bacqueux" tried for having robbed dealers and resellers of contraband cigarettes in 2012. A case in which the police forbid being crooks.
The screenplay by Cédric Jimenez and Audrey Diwan adopts their point of view, in particular that of Bruno Carrasco, one of the three group leaders within the BAC nord at the material time, author of
Sacrifié de la BAC nord
(Presses de la Cité) and advisor on the film.
Impeccable cast
Les Misérables,
by Ladj Ly, showed the city of Bosquets, in Montfermeil (Seine-Saint-Denis), like a basket of crabs, where inhabitants, dealers, bearded men, big brothers, gypsies and bacqueux survived in the same destitution.
BAC Nord
sticks to the coattails of a patrol pushed by its superiors…
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