Dernier Maquis / Adhen

Dernier Maquis / Adhen

Date : Friday, 13 July 2012

5:30 pm & 7:30 pm

Director: Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche 

2008, 93 min

Mao, the boss of a company specialized in repairing trucks and pallets, musulman like all his employees, decide to open a mosque in his place of work. His arbitrary designation of an imam will be divisive...

A film combining Marx and Mahomet? With Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche, a new wind is blowing in the landscape of the French cinema. Dernier Maquis is a disturbing film that generates more questions than judgments for the spectator, and can be interpreted in many different ways. First the filmmaker gives the floor to an underclass, including Arabs and black people. Then he shows what you cannot see anywhere else, often in a tragicomedic style: a worker making a mess of his autocircumcision, or stormy debate on the choice of the imam, reminding the historical schism between Sunnis and Shiites. The filmmaker has obviously a knack of placing us in the face of ambiguous situations. The position of the patron, played by the filmmaker himself, is one of the most disturbing points of this film: is Mao's character a manipulator or a generous boss capable of sacrifice?

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