Le Boucan
Motion Pictures & Film - Paris, Île-de-France, France
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A documentary about talent, beauty and fame in the Parisian suburbs. Seventeen years after "la Haine" - Mathieu Kassovitz's iconic film about life in the French suburbs - and 30 years after the first riots in those suburbs, the problems remain the same. Europe has a unique cocktail of unemployment, school drop-outs, ghetoisation, discrimination and resentment, which fuels an underground economy, the rise of radical Islam, anger and violence. In 2005 further riots seemed to mark a turning point but once again virtually nothing changed. Residents of these areas say that urban renewal projects just cover things up, that improving the facade does not solve and problems. In Clichy-sous-Bois, a Paris suburb where there were large riots seven years ago. The area continues to deteriorate. Over the last three decades there have been many reports on the area, and the people have become distrustful. The media, like the police, are not welcome there and many told the euronews team to leave and that no-one would talk to them.
