Les Pires
A film crew descend on a working-class French town, with thought-provoking and sometimes darkly funny results. The challenges of street casting are explored in this drama about a film within a film.
Flemish director Gabriel (Johan Heldenbergh) is casting in the Cité Picasso housing project in the suburbs of Boulogne-sur-Mer near Calais. His film is about a pregnant teen and her younger brother, and he is looking for ordinary non-actor local residents. The neighbours are surprised that he only seems to cast “les pires” - what they consider to be the worst ones, or the hoodlums. But there is raw talent in Lily (Mallory Wanecque) and hot-headed Ryan (Timéo Mahaut). ‘This is a fascinating look at the filming experience which will appeal to anyone who appreciates Andrea Arnold’s style of filmmaking’. Deadline. (Subtitles)
France 2023 Lise Akoka & Romane Gueret 99m
