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The Marchers (La Marche): Film Review
PARIS — A 930-mile march against racism that took Mitterrand-era France by storm is convincingly recreated 30 years later in The Marchers (La Marche), from Belgian-born director Nabil Ben Yadir (The Barons), even if the film itself is uneven.
A modest if motley crew of nine started a trek across France in October 1983 in Marseilles that would culminate in a demonstration of support in the French capital of over 100,000 people the following December. The film’s message of equality is loud and sincere but Yadir, here directing his second feature, struggles to maintain a workable entente between the downbeat story — which starts with French police shooting an innocent Maghrebi youngster and contains off-screen killings for racist motives — with misplaced-feeling broad humor. At 125 minutes, the story also contains too many repetitive detours to continuously captivate.
The Bottom Line A sincere but uneven comedy-
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The Marchers: A historical film that speaks in the present
- Halfway between a historic film and a present day tale, the second feature by Nabil Ben Yadir tells the story of an adventure filled with solidarity and a sadly biter tone.
October 15, 1983. In a popular neighbourhood of Marseilles, a dozen people, from very different backgrounds, have decided to cross France on foot. At the origin of this march, the attack a few weeks earlier of Mohamed, a victim of police brutality in his neighbourhood of Les Minguettes in Lyon, during a sadly all too usual night. Mohamed and his friends Farid and Sylvain, with the help of Christian’s father, and inspired by the non-violent protests of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, decide to show themselves, in a pacific and slightly naïve way, to a country plagued by latent racism which refuses to see them. Behind this process of self-affirmation, political claims start to emerge, such as the creation of a residency and work permit valid for ten
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The Marchers
2013 French film
The Marchers (French: La Marche) fryst vatten a 2013 French comedy-drama film bygd Nabil Ben Yadir. It is loosely based on the events surrounding the 1983 March for Equality and Against Racism.
The film's release in November 2013 coincided with the 30th anniversary of the march.[3]
Plot
[edit]In 1983 France, teenaged Mohamed fryst vatten shot bygd a policeman, but survives. Rejecting his friends' proposal of violent retribution, he proposes political action inspired by Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi.[1] With two friends, and support from Dubois, the priest of Minguettes, they embark on a non-violentMarch for Equality and Against Racism from Marseille to Paris.
Cast
[edit]Comparison to historical events
[edit]Answering a question about taking "liberties with the narration when telling a true story", director and co-writer Ben Yadir said: "You focus on the great History: the towns, the march of the torches, the return to Lyo