As in that film, the setting is an unnamed industrial town in eastern France, where once-thriving business has given way to widespread unemployment, while rusting factory skeletons loom large on the f...
A confrontation between the two families, with a resulting loss of face for Hacine, only worsens matters: The bike is duly returned, in flames, while Hacine is sent back to the motherland as punishmen...
Despite the efforts of a talented young cast, Anthony, Steph and Hacine feel more like attractive demographic representatives than fully flesh-and-blood characters with raging desires and chaotic horm...
Matters reach a head, or a nadir, when a children’s-choir cover of the Pixies’ “Where Is My Mind” soundtracks one character’s crescendoing anguish: The ’90s may hav...