Outside the Law

Hors-la-loi

Belgium, Algeria, Italy, Tunisia, France

2010

131 Min

Color

2.35:1

Arabic, French

Currently 3.2/5 Stars.
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SCR Rachid Bouchareb, Olivier Lorelle

CAST Jamel Debbouze, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila, Chafia Boudraa, Bernard Blancan, Sabrina Seyvecou, Assaad Bouab, Thibault de Montalembert, Samir Guesmi, Jean-Pierre Lorit, Ahmed Benaissa, Larbi Zekkal, Mourad Khen, Corentin Lobet, Régis Romele

SOUND Sébastien Wera

Cannes (In Competition), Toronto (Special Presentations), London (Film on the Square), São Paulo (International Perspective), Göteborg (Mästare)

Synopsis

After losing their family home in Algeria, three brothers and their mother are scattered across the globe. Messaoud joins the French army fighting in Indochina; Abdelkader becomes a leader of the Algerian independence movement in France and Saïd moves to Paris to make his fortune in the shady clubs and boxing halls of Pigalle. Gradually, their interconnecting destinies reunite them in the French capital, where freedom is a battle to be fought and won. –Cannes Film Festival

Director

Rachid Bouchareb

Rachid Bouchareb (born September 1, 1959) is a French film director of Algerian descent.

Bouchareb was born near Paris. From 1977 to 1983, he worked as an assistant director for France’s state television production company, S.F.P. Subsequetly, he worked for broadcasters TF1 and Antenne 2. He formed a production company called 3B with his associate Jean Bréhat in 1988.

Bouchareb began making short films in the 1980s. His featured film debut came in 1985 with Baton Rouge. Since then his acclaimed films have included Dust of Life (which received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film in 1995); Little Senegal (which was shown in competition at the 2001 Berlin Film Festival; and Days of Glory, which received the Best Foreign Language Film nomination in 2006 and also won prizes at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. Bouchareb’s films have a following amongst international cineastes.

His film, Hors-la-loi, competed for the Palme d’Or at the 2010 Cannes Film… read more

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Colin Landon

29Aug11

Outside the Law is Bouchareb's second major film, using the same cast as Days of Glory. It's a tale of three Algerian brothers who together, bring the Algerian revolution to French soil in the 1950's. I've not seen a film that mimics scenes from the Godfather, but Outside the Law does so in a couple ways. The story is not as fluid or compelling as Days of Glory, but the political tone is very interesting in this film

pianoman324

22Mar11

This is one of those films in which the filmmakers layer on one depressing scene after another, most of which are also quite violent. The result is a film that obviously condemns violence of any kind, but whether the violence is also glamorized is arguable. After setting scene after scene of blood-letting to pulse-pounding music, the film seems to want to make the audience eagerly anticipate the next bit of violence.