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Our film review of The Worst: For Better and For “Worst”

2022-12-06T12:27:19.722Z


Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret sign a light-hearted first film in the form of a children's chronicle, which won the Un certain regard prize at Cannes.


In the heart of the Picasso city, it's the commotion.

A film crew comes to set up to shoot a film.

In Boulogne-sur-Mer, in the north of France, it is not uncommon to hear seagulls crying between two blocks of buildings.

The worst

begins as a documentary, raw formwork.

Facing the camera, a Belgian director named Gabriel (Johan Heldenbergh, very fair and involved) proceeds to wild castings of children.

The kids parade.

Despite the aggressiveness that hovers, the clumsiness that bursts out, they vaguely feel that this chance is up for grabs.

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The director is looking for children with “difficult experiences”, dropping out of school, children in foster care or leaving homes… In short, mostly lost sheep, neglected by their parents, often dented by life.

Four will be selected for

To piss against the north wind

, a highly improbable title of this feature film which would like to capture the misery of disadvantaged neighborhoods.

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Source: lefigaro

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