Paria

France

2000

126 Min

Color

1.37:1

French

Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
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CAST Cyril Troley, Gérald Thomassin, Didier Berestetsky, Aristide Demonico, Morgane Hainaux, Nordine Barour, Emel Ghomari

SOUND Arthur Le Roux, Régis Leroux

San Sebastián (Competition): Special Prize of the Jury, Solidarity Award, São Paulo, San Sebastián (Cutting Edge of French Cinema)

Synopsis

Set during the preparations of the year 2000 celebration, Paria is the story of Victor, eighteen. Working as delivery-boy for a video-club, he has just fallen in love with Anabelle when his motorbike is stolen, and he is thrown out of his room for not having paid his rent for three months.Victor roams in Paris and meets Momo, twenty-five years old, homeless, a crafty guy who has got himself a paper mariage. He leads him through a certain reality : social exclusion. A new year will begin for both of them. —unifrance.org

Director

Nicolas Klotz

Born 1954 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. He has made numerous portrait films about musicians, among others Ravi Shankar. In 1995, he started a theatre company together with the screenwriter Elisabeth Perceval. They have since worked together in both theatre and film, e.g. Paria (2000), The Wound (2004) and Hearbeat Detector (2007). —Copenhagen International Filmfestival