In his book
Cinéma Speculations
, Quentin Tarantino explains how
Slacker
, Richard Linklater's first film (the
Before
trilogy ,
Boyhood
), captures the essence of Austin, the Texas town where the filmmaker has resided for forty years.
His camera crisscrossed the streets one summer day in 1989 to meet some young cranks.
In a few decades, we will perhaps look at
Grand Paris
as the best testimony to a certain youth in a certain suburb (the peri-urban area of the outer suburbs) at a certain time (the 2020s).
The first feature film by Martin Jauvat, 26, features two idlers (a possible translation of
"slacker"
), Leslie (Mahamadou Sangaré) and Renard (Jauvat himself).
On a construction site of the future Greater Paris metro line, the two friends find a mysterious object with esoteric inscriptions.
Artifact, ancient talisman or relic of a vanished civilization, there is undoubtedly money to be made.
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