Poetical Refugee
(2000)
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Poetical Refugee
(2000)
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| Sami Bouajila | ... |
Jallel
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| Élodie Bouchez | ... |
Lucie
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Bruno Lochet | ... |
Franck
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| Aure Atika | ... |
Nassera
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| Olivier Loustau | ... |
Antonio
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Virginie Darmon | ... |
Leila
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Mustapha Adouani | ... |
Mostfa
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Sami Zitouni | ... |
Nono
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Carole Franck | ... |
Barbara
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Jean-Michel Fête | ... |
Philippe
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Manuel Le Lièvre | ... |
André
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François Genty | ... |
Paul
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Meryem Serbah | ... |
La marieuse
(as Meriem Serbah)
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Francis Arnaud | ... |
Le fonctionnaire
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Nejlb Nekales | ... |
Hocine
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There is a French Film festival running in Stockholm now and the common distributors are to be blamed, not letting us see many of these films before. "La faute à Voltaire" is about a Tunisian immigrant, cheating his way through the French bureaucracy, and a mental hospital, but finding solidarity and real friendship among people living in the poorest conditions of Paris of today.
There is a beautiful love story also. The immigrant at the hospital meets a disturbed "nymphomaniac" girl, very well played by Èloudie Bouchez, and starts a somewhat destructive but not altogether destructive relation with her.
This is very far from common American and common Swedish film indeed. It is about real people.