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Director: Starring: Release: 5 Dec. 03
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Monsieur Ibrahim
BY: DAVID PERRY
Monsieur Ibrahim, though set in the 1960s deals with an
ever-present problem that is now getting its American remake: the racism
towards Muslims. Sure, there’s been some integration in post-Mitterand
France, but there’s still an element of hatred towards the Arabs filling the
outskirts of Paris, their noticeably different customs and looks integral to
their otherness and the revulsion sometimes coupled with foreigners. They
are much like the Mexican immigrants in America, their true hope for a
better life in the West, overshadowed by politicians who use their outsider
status as a way to vilify them in charged electorate (case in point, the
run-off election between Jacques Chirac and the extremely anti-Arab
Jean-Marie Le Pen in 2002). |
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©2004, David Perry, Cinema-Scene.com, 11 June 2004 |