A scooter gang from the Paris suburbs wants revolution—this weekend, before curfew.
Saturday evening. We have a date with friends and Pierrot has finally obtained his mother's slightly worried authorization. He runs down the indefinite staircase of the immaculate H.L.M., planted firmly in the mud of the suburbs, to meet up with the others. The others are older than him on the whole, but what they have in common is the desire for something to change, this weekend, and for things to get moving. This is especially true for those with scooters who, in close ranks, can scare pedestrians, hug cars and taunt the marshals. Pierrot will be taken in rump like the girls, Thérèse behind Jacquy, Monette behind Christian.
Direction
Andrei captures restless youth with documentary-like intimacy.
Cinematography
Gritty suburb H.L.M. becomes character itself.
Director
Yannick Andrei
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
H.L.M. (Habitation à Loyer Modéré) were France's postwar public housing projects—Andrei films them as both prison and launching pad for 1961 youth.
Nearly lost to time with zero TMDB votes; this is pre-Godard French New Wave capturing working-class suburbs before they became cinematic cliché.
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