FC Montfermeil : Maintenant ou Jamais is an immersive documentary series created by Guillaume and Nicolas Thevenin This original Max France production follows a generation of young players from the U17 section of the Montfermeil club as they seek a professional career in soccer FC Montfermeil : Maintenant ou Jamais will be available on Max from June 20 Synopsis: The Paris suburbs are a breeding ground for soccer talent sees its young U17 players dreaming of signing for a big club coaches' expectations and personal ambitions Marwan and their teammates have to give their all to seize their chance The series could appeal to fans of authentic sports stories une autre histoire de France or Sunderland 'Til I Die Those interested in human stories of overcoming odds the social realities of the suburbs and the trajectories of young talent will find a sincere and moving account in FC Montfermeil: Maintenant ou Jamais Previewed at the Canneséries festival FC Montfermeil : Maintenant ou Jamais features five 30-minute episodes Directed by Ousmane Ly and produced by Myriam Weil for Federation Studios and Guillaume Thevenin for Riggins Films the series captures the decisive season of a team of young footballers under tension and hoping to take a decisive step towards the professional world FC Montfermeil : Maintenant ou Jamais is a poignant documentary series about the dreams of youth it offers a human and authentic look at the social and sporting realities of the Paris suburbs through the destinies of young footballers in search of recognition This article is based on information available online; we have not yet viewed the film or series mentioned Max June 2025: new films and series to seeDiscover the new films and series on Max in June 2025, an ideal selection for your summer evenings. [Read more] This page may contain AI-assisted elements, more information here Refer your establishment, click herePromote your event, click here Globetrotter photographer JR has gained international acclaim for his monumental trompe-l'œil collages. His triptych mural Chroniques de Clichy-Montfermeil, Work in Progress has just joined the Centre Pompidou’s collection thanks to the generosity of the artist and his gallerist, Emmanuel Perrotin. The work is now on display on Level 4 of the Museum. Chroniques de Clichy-Montfermeil has a sociological aspect: it mirrors a community at a given moment, it’s a historical record, a distilled snapshot of its time. The work tells everyone’s story. Voir cette publication sur InstagramUne publication partagée par JR (@jr) I was doing my first collages—what I called my Expo 2 Rue I remember putting up posters outside Beaubourg… Of course I would climb onto rooftops all around the Centre Pompidou I could see that incredible building… It felt completely out of reach near the Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely fountain I installed my large-format portraits of Palestinians and Israelis on a huge wall These were the same images I’d pasted up for my Face 2 Face project on the wall separating Israel and the Palestinian territories.. Shepard Fairey’s mural occupies that space I set up a kind of giant photo booth in the Forum as part of my Inside Out project oversized portraits to visitors—totally free It was a huge success; there were hours-long lines I think we printed close to 12,000 portraits I designed the You Are Here exhibition-workshop for the Children's Gallery—another fantastic memory and I had a nostalgic thought for my friend Agnès Varda (who passed away in 2019) who loved the surrealists and often spoke to me about the importance of dreams in the creative process." ◼ Charlotte Abramow est l'un des talents montants de la photographie e… Il s'est fait connaître dans les années 2000 avec ses « attaques visuelles » sur des logos publicita… le duo de street artists Lek & Sowat cr… certain regions are particularly well known for their landscapes of large cereal fields and one of the country's most important grain-growing plains This can be seen in a number of historic monuments preserved to bear witness to this agricultural past Such is the case in Montfermeil, where the Moulin de Sempin it was seized as national property during the Revolution the mill has been undergoing further restoration work with the official reopening to the general public scheduled for April 2025 The mill now produces flour fit for consumption which is then used to make bread by several local bakeries the flour passes through the mill's floors - literally before being sifted - to arrive directly in sacks on the first floor After a behind-the-scenes look at the mill the mill museum featuring a variety of artifacts and old appliances The mill is open all week (Monday to Saturday all year round) to groups (minimum 10 people) and on Sundays (3pm to 6pm) and public holidays (April 1 and November 11 only) to the general public the mill closes from November 11th to early April for the winter season so if you'd like to support the mill and the volunteer association that runs it Once you've discovered the Moulin, don't miss the Jean-Pierre Josseaume park where a small educational farm is due to open soon This test was conducted as part of a professional invitation Creating large-scale public photography projects in cities around the world that address local political conflicts the French artist JR has in recent years become one of the most visible contemporary artists on the international stage identifying himself only by his initials and always wearing dark sunglasses and a fedora in public JR's socially minded experiments in photography and relational aesthetics have led his fellow street artist Shepard Fairey to call him "the most ambitious person I know."Born to a Tunisian mother and European father in the banlieues of Paris JR started out as a graffiti tagger using the monicker Face 3 before transitioning into photography taking pictures of other street artists at work (He still calls himself a "photograffeur.") In 2004 photographing the faces of the rioters and pasting up large prints of their faces around the city which humanized a largely immigrant populace that the government officially termed "scum," has become JR's trademark he pasted portraits of Arabs and Jews on walls throughout Israel and the West Bank for the project Face2Face after the government-involved murder of three young men in Rio de Janeiro's disenfranchised Morro da Providência favela led to riots he plastered enormous pictures of the eyes of the community's women (including relatives of the dead youths) on buildings looking down into the city for Women Are Heroes.After winning the 2011 TED prize JR inverted his practice for the project Inside Out inviting people around the globe to send him photographs of themselves that he would then print out at large scale and send back to them to mount publicly Participants have ranged from North Dakota's Lakota tribe to the revolutionary Tunisian protesters JR was invited to create a giant photo booth at the Centre Pompidou and in 2010 his film of the Woman Are Heroes project was premiered at the Cannes Film Festival "The fact that art cannot change things makes it a neutral place for exchanges and discussions and then enables it to change the world," the artist has said "What is most fascinating to me is involvement." 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But it has an entirely new plot, a new set of characters, and a new century, the 21st. Into this volatile mix, the movie plops a police officer named Stephane who’s new to the area. He’s teamed with a couple of veteran cops, one a power-tripping hothead named Chris, the other a more reasonable-seeming African officer named Gwad. As the two veterans make their rounds, Stephane becomes more and more disturbed at how they treat people. They in turn dismiss him as a rube who doesn’t understand the way things work in the projects (Les Bosquet). The plot gets underway when a lion cub goes missing from a circus traveling nearby and the carnies threaten to a riot if the cub is not returned. Something unexpected happens in the follow-through, and the resulting stand-off between all the various factions and the cops creates a metaphorical tinderbox. Inspired by the riots in the suburbs of Paris over a decade ago, “Les Miserables” not only does a good job of creating a real sense of life on the ground in Montfermeil, it also does its best to humanize all parties involved. Without condoning police brutality, the film bears witness to the complexity of police work, and without excusing criminal violence, it acknowledges the justifiable rage felt in the immigrant communities. It’s no surprise to find out first-time director Ladj Ly is himself an immigrant, from Mali, grew up in those very same projects in Montfermeil, and even served some time behind bars. This film may not have cribbed its story from Victor Hugo but it does incorporate a crucial few lines from his novel: “There are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.” An apt summation of “Les Miserables,” the film. Already the Jury Prize winner at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, “Les Miserables” is also a nominee for Best International Film at this year’s Academy Awards. In 2014, JR staged a ballet telling the story of the riots and the life of Ladj Ly, an ally right from the beginning. Bodies under tension, police chases and Molotov cocktails then became classic in their reinterpretation by Lil Buck, the dancer Lauren Lovette and the 42 members of the New York City Ballet. JR then extended this experience by producing a short film of the same name, shot in Les Bosquets, on original music by Hans Zimmer, Woodkid, Pharrell Williams and Ben Walfish. Sorry, there arent any match using your search terms, please try again using other terms. a police officer newly transferred from the provinces of France to a suburb of Paris called Montfermeil largely of African (both North African and sub-Saharan African) descent Stéphane is white; he’s assigned to a patrol alongside a black officer named Gwada (Djibril Zonga) and led by another officer Their precinct captain (Jeanne Balibar) sends mixed messages telling Stéphane that Chris is something of a cowboy in the streets—but that she tolerates no “inappropriate behavior.” and tells it almost entirely from Stéphane’s point of view mainly in brief informational scenes that fill in plot points It’s also a movie in which the elaborate setup isn’t merely indispensable to a discussion of the movie; it’s the very point—there’s very little psychology to the movie very little personality bestowed upon its characters the film proceeds like a virtual documentary with the specifics of the plot providing factual discoveries from the perspective of a white officer whose point of view stands in for that of a useful abstraction of step-by-step unfolding of events in which the viewer is identified with an implicated participant who is also ignorant of the circumstances in which he’s forced to take action is a dramatic doubling of the baseline conditions of French political and media life It’s that shrewdly confrontational positioning that gives the film its immediacy its passionate and diagnostic power—and one of the many quasi-documentary elements that the movie depicts is the behavior of the police itself An explosive tale of police brutality and racial tensions on the margins of French society Ladj Ly’s gripping Les Misérables revisits life in the Parisian banlieues 25 years after La Haine Here he talks to Elena Lazic about fighting to create a space for filmmaking outside the country’s often insular mainstream channels ▶︎ Les Misérables is in UK cinemas from 4 September 2020 Early in director Ladj Ly’s feature debut Les Misérables and we look down from its vantage point as it soars above the tough Parisian banlieue of Les Bosquets in Montfermeil Although it lies only a little over 10 miles north-east of the centre of Paris and the shot gives us a bird’s-eye view of a part of Paris which most of us only know from watching the news which was also the location of the inn run by the villainous Thénardiers in the epic 1862 Victor Hugo novel that gave Ly’s film its title but Ly’s film will also plunge us down to street level into the tinderbox of tensions that exist among its residents – and from them towards the police the film offers an insider’s view of such tensions – which Ly himself witnessed growing up in Montfermeil when riots followed an instance of police brutality that led to the deaths of two teenagers – events that in part inspired Les Misérables an act which has fuelled tensions and suspicions between different ethnic groups in the area Once they learn that Buzz has captured the incident on film the gendarmes frantically try to retrieve the footage so they can wipe the record The drone shot that is so central to Les Misérables is also a knowing homage to a famous sequence in the film to which every other banlieue-set movie is inevitably compared: Mathieu Kassovitz’s La Haine (1995) made years before drones became easily available filmmaking tools in order to shoot a staggering shot overlooking a square where kids listen to a DJ blast a now classic Edith Piaf/KRS-One remix from his flat’s speakers Kassovitz had to use a rudimentary mini-helicopter La Haine caused a sensation on its release opening the eyes of many to the realities of life in the banlieues with their ever-present violence and police brutality Ly’s film has also had an impact in France and showing how little has changed in the interim When Les Misérables won the Jury Prize in Cannes in May last year, to many it seemed as though Ly had come out of nowhere, fully formed. But he had amassed an extensive body of work over the previous decade, directing and starring in short films as part of the film collective Kourtrajmé (named after ‘court métrage’ a strain of French slang which creates new words by transposing the syllables of everyday ones) also called Les Misérables and starring some of the same actors which was recognised at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival and nominated at the César Awards Indicative of its position outside the mainstream of French cinema Kourtrajmé typically bypassed the usual channels of distribution Kourtrajmé has 135 members active in several fields is passionate about creating a space for French filmmaking outside its sometimes insular mainstream channels The group are also seeking to challenge expectations: the short films made by Kourtrajmé are often humorous and full of enthusiasm qualities not usually associated with the banlieues as they are presented in the French media the director satirised the ultra-serious tone of news reports from the banlieues which portray them as fortresses populated by minorities that one enters at one’s own peril Les Misérables is another corrective to those Manichean and inaccurate portrayals demonstrating the way fear of the Other is at the centre of a fundamentally broken system The film is the first in a planned trilogy parts two and three of which Ly is developing now Most people discovered you through Les Misérables but you’ve been making films for a long time Can you tell me about your work with the collective Kourtrajmé We’ve known each other since kindergarten or primary school The collective was formed in 1994 with the ambition to make our own films I was close friends with Kim Chapiron as a kid I bought my first video camera and began filming my neighbourhood Some of the other Kourtrajmé members have moved towards music videos and work outside the banlieue you focus on the banlieue in a documentary style Unlike my friends from Kourtrajmé who live in Paris and there are so many stories to tell there that I’ve made it my specialty There are so many issues to tackle that I think I could make films about the banlieue for at least ten more years The short films you made with Kourtrajmé were posted online because we’re not on producers’ radars or financed by any organisations There comes a point where we have to do it all ourselves Kourtrajmé was born because we couldn’t recognise ourselves in French cinema it was the very beginning of the digital age Digital cameras had just appeared and for the first time We realised that the internet was a great space to broadcast our films We had a Kourtrajmé website where we would post our videos I’ve always held on to this concept where I would make my films independently Why the decision to include and to start with the policemen’s point of view no one expected me to tell this story from the perspective of the policemen It’s the surprise of making a film that does not take sides and does not judge only presents a situation as justly as possible That’s also what makes the film strong: it describes a reality It was important for us to say that the ‘misérables’ are everybody – the inhabitants the police… all the people in this universe How did you strike a balance between denouncing this reality and opening up a conversation I have something to say: I’m not just making a film to make a film The idea behind [the film’s] open ending is that it might make people think and start a debate The film was seen by more than two million viewers in France The government said they wanted to improve the living conditions in the banlieue after seeing the film It’s interesting that the film gives us the point of view of a policeman coming from the provinces – a total outsider the policemen who arrive in these neighbourhoods are just out of school or don’t have a lot of experience I thought it would be interesting to tell this story from the perspective of this man who will discover this world at the same time as the viewer most people who don’t live in the banlieue only know it through the media and through politics – most of them have never been It was important to try to make people understand what the banlieue is really like so that they wouldn’t immediately jump to clichés or fantasies You filmed the real-life protests in the banlieue in 2005 which fed into your short documentary 365 Days in Clichy-Montfermeil [2007] What differing impacts do you think fiction films and documentaries have I found myself filming a moment of police brutality – I saw first-hand all the consequences of that I thought it would be interesting to bring it to the realm of fiction You also made a documentary called 365 days in Mali [2014] and you’ve said you want to make films in Africa We’re setting up a Kourtrajmé film school in Senegal in September to form this generation of filmmakers and develop projects there And you’ve opened a film school called Kourtrajmé in Montfermeil too If we want French cinema to change and to become more diverse we need to take the situation into our own hands So I decided with this school to give a chance to diversity – diversity in cultures diversity in social backgrounds… We give everyone a chance and applicants do not need to have a diploma This will be the school’s second year and everything is going well all these young people with lots of ideas being super-productive Things will be happening in the next few years I evolved with Kourtrajmé and we always did everything together That is what I’m trying to put in place today I want all the students to benefit from the network I have and the one I’m creating Director Ladj Ly offers an insider’s view of how police brutality ripples through a deprived banlieue in the French capital and information about our latest magazine once a month and the UK’s lead organisation for film and the moving image ▶︎ Les Misérables is in UK cinemas from 4 September 2020 Early in director Ladj Ly’s feature debut Les Misérables and the shot gives us a bird’s-eye view of a part of Paris which most of us only know from watching the news when riots followed an instance of police brutality that led to the deaths of two teenagers – events that in part inspired Les Misérables the gendarmes frantically try to retrieve the footage so they can wipe the record The drone shot that is so central to Les Misérables is also a knowing homage to a famous sequence in the film to which every other banlieue-set movie is inevitably compared: Mathieu Kassovitz’s La Haine (1995) and showing how little has changed in the interim When Les Misérables won the Jury Prize in Cannes in May last year, to many it seemed as though Ly had come out of nowhere, fully formed. But he had amassed an extensive body of work over the previous decade, directing and starring in short films as part of the film collective Kourtrajmé (named after ‘court métrage’ a strain of French slang which creates new words by transposing the syllables of everyday ones) preferring to post its creations online Kourtrajmé has 135 members active in several fields qualities not usually associated with the banlieues as they are presented in the French media parts two and three of which Ly is developing now Can you tell me about your work with the collective Kourtrajmé We’ve known each other since kindergarten or primary school I bought my first video camera and began filming my neighbourhood There are so many issues to tackle that I think I could make films about the banlieue for at least ten more years Why the decision to include and to start with the policemen’s point of view That’s also what makes the film strong: it describes a reality the police… all the people in this universe How did you strike a balance between denouncing this reality and opening up a conversation The idea behind [the film’s] open ending is that it might make people think and start a debate I thought it would be interesting to tell this story from the perspective of this man who will discover this world at the same time as the viewer so that they wouldn’t immediately jump to clichés or fantasies What differing impacts do you think fiction films and documentaries have Is this still something you are pursuing to form this generation of filmmakers and develop projects there And you’ve opened a film school called Kourtrajmé in Montfermeil too and applicants do not need to have a diploma During the confinement period, you can access PSG TV Premium for free and enjoy all this season's match videos. 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Please upgrade your browser to improve your experience Paris Saint-Germain's U19 team lost by the smallest of margins the Rouge et Bleu remain leaders of the National U19 Championship Paris Saint-Germain's U19s are comfortably ahead in the league 3') was enough for the home side to win the game Zoumana Camara's men remain top of the league (43 points) The Titis will go to bottom of the league Saint Pryvé Saint Hilaire on Sunday 13 February “Les Misérables” quickly assumes an intimate While France celebrates its 2018 World Cup victory as depicted in a euphoric if ominous opening sequence the film follows its pre-teenaged characters on the train from the shadow of the Arc de Triomphe back to its own antipodean graffiti-camouflaged apartment blocks of Montfermeil Also taking in the scenery are recently-transferred cop Stéphane Ruiz (Damien Bonnard) and his colleagues corrupt captain Chris (Alexis Manenti) and banlieue-raised Gwada (Djibril Zonga) who intermediate between rival clans quarreling over a stolen lion (really!) When they track down the prepubescent culprit (Issa Perica) via Instagram a rash act threatens to plunge the entire town into pandemonium.It is a testament to Ly’s direction (and co-screenwriting) that the Montfermeil depicted in “Les Misérables” feels sprawling and lived-in rather than thin and muddled The navigable chaos of the jumbled streets outdoor markets and apartment blocks Ly expertly crafts in the film follows in the storied footsteps of banlieue cinema like “La Haine” (1995) and With the aid of Julien Poupard’s understated camerawork (and a few inspired drone shots) “Les Misérables” develops tension and character through dialogue with a deft touch effortlessly immersing its audience.The film’s cast and crew also deserve much credit for marrying its tension with a potent emotional grounding Many of the cast make their debut along with Ly with Perica and Zonga giving particularly affecting performances The sound of “Les Misérables,” for the most part unsupervised urban play and crowded apartments Ly and the composers of Pink Noise cleverly keep their electro-synth score sparse lending its infrequent undulating notes a powerful poignance.Where “Les Misérables” falters is in its final coda veers a bit too didactic compared to the shifting motivations and lifelike volatility of the film that precedes it 2019’s “Les Misérables” does its namesake proud serving as a cinematic experience that remains topical without becoming preachy building an expansive world without sacrificing rich characters and genuinely moving its audience without trafficking in cheap sentimentality Ly has said that he wants the film to evoke the “daily misery” of Montfermeil the emergence of “Les Misérables” and its ascendant director is pure joie de vivre Tunnel-boring machine (TBM) “Mireille” has completed the first leg of her journey After 2.2 kilometres of excavation, the TBM arrived on March 29 at the site of the future station of Clichy-Montfermeil, located on Lot 2, a section of Line 16 being built by Webuild and its French partner NGE. The future metro line north of Paris is part of Grand Paris Express, the most ambitious project in Europe for sustainable mobility which includes the excavation of 11 kilometres of tunnels and the construction of four stations Webuild and NGE worked together on Lot 4 of Line 14 South an extension more than four kilometres long completed more than a year ago to connect Orly Airport with the centre of Paris Lot 2 of Line 16 and Lot 4 of Line 14 South stand to help reduce daily traffic by 385,000 vehicles and annual CO2 emissions by 81,000 tonnes Line 16 is one of the strategic lines of the Grand Paris Express It will transport an estimated 200,000 people a day Line 16 is part of a big project to improve transport services in the periphery of Paris,” says Guglielmina Fontana construction manager for Webuild at the site of the Clichy-Montfermeil station “It will obviously include many municipalities that are poorly served today by public transport So it is a way to improve these areas and to make it possible to create quicker and more modern connections with Paris.” Fontana arrived on the project after having worked on the Cityringen metro line in Copenhagen, another sustainable mobility project by Webuild With its successful arrival to the site of the station, TBM Mireille is being prepared for the next leg of its journey: 3.1 kilometres of excavation through the municipalities of Livry-Gargan and Sevran to reach Mare au Chanvre at Sevran, where it will meet another TBM called “Houda” that is coming from the other end of Lot 2. 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stop is part of an ambitious urban project aimed at improving the existing transport network and creating a new automatic metro known as the ‘grand paris express’ a colorful pergola floats above the ground level to identify the canopy and plaza the station and ground level plaza seek to revive a currently forgotten and underutilized suburban area the neighborhood experienced violent riots that included the burning of cars and buildings the addition of this public space and metro stop will act as a symbol for change as well as link the area to the entirety of paris transverse section: a panelized colorful wall wraps the sunken atrium to smoothly link with the surrounding urban area the designed landscape and plaza gently slope downward to the station’s entry circulation to the four levels below is arranged around a central atrium which is characterized by its colorful panelized walls and contains a network of irregularly organized escalators the layout produces increased interaction between passers-by where the passengers can see each other but they don’t cross the circulation has been brought into scene and the passenger becomes the principal actor.’ longitudinal section: an irregular network of escalators reach the metro platforms four levels below grade beyond solely serving the planned metro line the station will also act as a hub for bus travel the public aspect of the project is enhanced with a mix of commercial program the design team describes its overall optimistic outlook: ‘the idea was to give a new identity to this place with a glance to the origins of many of its inhabitants we would like to transform this grey and abandoned place into a vivid and colorful square this is why we based the motives of the pavement the shapes and the colors of the roof on the tissues decorative motives and colors from africa.’ model of sunken atrium and escalator arrangement map of the planned ‘grand paris express’ automatic metro network first prizeplaza area: 4842 sqmbuilt area: 4911 sqmorganizer: société du grand parisarchitect: benedetta tagliabue – miralles tagliabue EMBTlocal architects: anna maria bordas + miquel peiro – bordas+peiroproject directors: elena nedelcu karl unglaub – miralles tagliabue EMBTdesign team: gaia cella flavie caroukiseconomist: bureau michel forguesacoustic consultant: AVLSlighting designer: dumas lumiere marc dumasfire security consultant: casso & associesenergy consultant: arbor & senssociologist: acadieinfographics designer: PLAY-TIME architectonic imageartist: jorge rodríguez gerada AXOR presents three bathroom concepts that are not merely places of function but destinations in themselves — sanctuaries of style The French leader was so appalled by Les Misérables The director of ‘the new La Haine’ talks about the country’s angry underclass Thu 20 Aug 2020 07.00 CESTLast modified on Tue 2 May 2023 11.47 CESTShareWhen Ladj Ly was a teenager upset the neighbours – and the people who ran the circus demanded it be returned And yet his film starts not with misery but with joy. France is celebrating World Cup victory over Croatia in 2018 and two friends head from their concrete jungle to the Champs Elysées to join the party the celebrations echoed those he witnessed aged 18 in 1998 when a team of different colours creeds and cultures also won the World Cup and showed the world that France was multicultural “I’m a little older than the characters of the film They return to Montfermeil no longer at one with the loved-up French nation for all that 30 different nationalities have learned to live together there some girls waiting for a bus are hassled and sexually harassed by a racist cop One girl starts to film the harassment on her phone but the cop snatches it and smashes it on the ground “That sort of thing happened to me a thousand times,” says Ly “I was 10 when I was first stopped and searched by a policeman.” “I bought my first camera aged 17 and made my first feature-length documentary during the 2005 riots The riots erupted at the bottom of my building and ultimately I had 100 hours of rushes.” At the time the rioters were condemned by interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy as “racaille” or scum “He caused the riots by underfunding us and using such words to get the far-right racists to support his election campaign rather than the National Front.” Just possibly it worked: Sarkozy was elected French president two years later Supported by his collective Kourtrajmé (which is French slang or verlan for court métrage or short film) Ly edited footage he shot during and after the riots and then uploaded a web documentary called 365 days in Clich-Montfermeil “I wanted the insider’s perspective on what happened during the riots rather than the one the media portrayed Ly went on to direct another feature-length documentary set in the African homeland of his parents, 365 Days in Mali He made it to contradict the media image of the country as the most dangerous place on Earth because of Al Qaida and Islamic State he couldn’t get traditional broadcasters to screen the film so he put it online Ly wasn’t done with filming the streets where he lives He decided to fictionally recast some of the incidents of his childhood to create a drama about Montfermeil He plays the nerdy film obsessive Buzz who incessantly films his estate Buzz’s eye is hardly innocent: he uses a drone camera to spy on girls getting undressed in their flats until they find out what he’s up to and threaten to beat him up if doesn’t delete the footage But it’s the stolen cub that precipitates the riot Ly depicts in Les Misérables In order to defuse a looming war between tooled-up circus folk and local toughs the cops seek out the boy who nicked the cub But when they find Issa their arrest goes horribly wrong provoking Montfermeil’s youth to rise up and propelling Ly’s film into a final 30 minutes of deranged violence which is being rereleased in the UK this autumn 25 years after it was made “What’s sad is that my film needed to be made Things have clearly not changed in France between La Haine 25 years ago and Les Misérables now.” “I haven’t shown all the cops as racists,” says Ly “And I’m certainly not showing the boys who riot as innocent victims The problem is that many cops come to Montfermeil after training and they have no idea what they’ve got into In the film, Ly dramatises this through the character of newly arrived white cop called Stéphane, an outsider from Cherbourg who asked for a transfer to Paris to improve his chances of gaining custody of his son from his ex-wife For all his gaucheness around people of colour he is disgusted with how his colleagues police the neighbourhood and behaves with compassion to the local youth both of whom have become desensitised to the brutal way they police their patch This nuanced view of policing is all the more surprising since Ly himself has had trouble with the law. The French daily Libération reported last December that the director served a two-year prison term for complicity in a kidnapping case he confines himself to telling me he sued two rightwing magazines for racist slander in falsely reporting he had been convicted of taking part in an attempted murder “They were making up these stories about me because they didn’t want my voice to be heard They wanted to undermine the impact of the film.” French film schools are really just for the elitesIf so, they failed. Les Misérables has not only been feted in France winning the César for best film and the jury prize at Cannes He tells me some of the profits for the film have been used to bankroll a film school for local kids giving them the skills that Ly acquired autodidactically “French film schools are really just for the elites.” Maybe that’s why French cinema has become so boring a quote from Hugo’s novel pops up on screen my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men There are only bad cultivators.” The suggestion is that the French state has for centuries poorly cultivated its most deprived citizens; now those citizens have to cultivate their own the only space offering respite that is depicted in the film is a kebab shop run by a serene ex-jihadist and the only moral force on the streets is a group of Muslim men who strive to get the youth to forgo crime Ly is particularly interested in how Les Misérables will be received in francophone African countries “I hope that the film will discourage Africans from emigrating to France but instead stay home and develop their own countries.” Ly’s own parents were part of the post-second world war generation of Malians invited to France to do jobs the French disdained contemporaries of the Windrush generation invited to Britain “The contribution of immigrants to France is largely ignored even though they fought for France in world war one world war two and helped France recover after the war Still the descendants of those immigrants are treated badly Sidelined … the women in Ly’s film. Photograph: Lifestyle pictures/Alamy Stock PhotoAt least President Macron, having reportedly been shocked by the France depicted in Les Misérables has ordered an investigation into poverty in the banlieues but adds: “How could he not have known the extent of the problems I show in the film A few months after interviewing Ly in the spring I catch up with him again in a world changed utterly by coronavirus and the resurgent Black Lives Matter movement Ly tells me he’s been in lockdown with his family in Montfermeil writing films and watching his beloved neighbourhood struggle “Covid has highlighted all the existing inequalities and accentuated them This allowed us to show the failures of our system in an unprecedented crisis “The situation was quite complicated since many families were already living in precarious conditions but the confinement caused many residents to lose their jobs which further increased the instability of their situation Many could no longer provide for themselves and their children A food bank has been set up in Montfermeil to help them.” shown that the problems of institutional racism and police brutality are not only American but the death of George Floyd has given it a face and visibility unmatched before which of course is abnormal and deplorable We must no longer wait for men and women to die before they are heard.” Lawyers for the officers deny the police were at fault “the BLM movement allows other fights like that of the Traoré family in France to finally be heard Although the protests were not as numerous as in the US marches and a rally were able to take place in Paris We only see a few in back rooms or kitchens; none is a significant protagonist “Maybe you will see more in my next films,” he says “I haven’t decided yet.” He is planning more films: Les Misérables is the first in a projected trilogy The second will go back 10 years to the struggles of the mayor “And then I will go back even further into the history of Montfermeil But if Montfermeil is as miserable as you suggest Les Misérables will be released in cinemas in the UK and Ireland on 4 September This article was amended on 20/08/20 to correct the spelling of Kourtrajmé We spoke with Ladj Ly about making a very loose adaptation the Victor Hugo’s classic in his hometown working with non-actors and helping marginalized voices speak for themselves The suburb of Montfermeil is where Victor Hugo chose to set part of his novel Les Misérables automatically making it a part of France’s cultural history But Montfermeil in 2019 is a very different place mainly immigrant population for whom the romantic dalliances of Jean Valjean have very little daily impact big-city cop Stéphane (Damien Bonnard) accepts a transfer to Montfermeil to be closer to his son He is immediately paired with hotheaded officers Chris (Alexis Manenti) and Gwada (Djibril Zonga) who have developed a very particular relationship with the locals Stéphane immediately butts heads with his more gung-ho who insist that they’ve figured out that their brand of justice is what keeps everything relatively calm when a lion cub goes missing from the Romani circus in town (When I question whether the lion cub subplot was an invention for the film Ly slides over his cellphone and shows me a picture of himself as a teenager — sitting on a couch with a lion cub!) Les Misérables is a curious thing: a film that feels explicitly political while also being a brisk and entertaining crime story in a way that many have attempted but few have really pulled off One assumes that has a lot to do with its director the area of Montfermeil depicted in the film… and A member of filmmaking collective Kourtrajmé turning his camera on his neighbourhood and on injustices perpetrated by police Les Misérables essentially stems from there Ly filmed an act of police brutality in les Bosquets that led to the short film that he eventually expanded into Les Misérables It goes without saying that the subject matter at hand is important to Ly (who also saw legal trouble a decade ago stemming from other videos of police brutality) but Les Misérables also had to be accessible “I come from a documentary background and so when I was thinking about my first feature I immediately gravitated towards documentary techniques I wanted a handheld camera that gets very close to people within a fiction framework all the stories I tell in the movie are real Everything in this story is inspired from real life from the stuff about the World Cup to the story of the lion cub that was stolen to some degree — things that happened to me or around me it helps to know something well and to know that you want to recreate it That certainly made many things easier for me I always have two cameras shooting and it never really stops!” the film’s last scene features more than 50 people piling into the narrow corridors of a project It’s a scene that clearly can’t be faked and for which sets built to accommodate equipment would immediately stick out “We had 50 kids and the whole technical team crammed into that tiny space,” says Ly that’s something that really happened to me The final scene is in the staircase of my building what you see in the movie happen in front of my eyes It helps when you’re telling stories that happened to you.” Les Misérables is cast almost exclusively with non-actors Only the three leads have a background as an actor and nearly everyone else is from the community in which the film is set “I like to work with non-actors because there’s something fresh and spontaneous about it,” says Ly it’s a challenge to say we’re going to take these people who have no experience and think we’re going to transform them But I was interested in the idea that it was also their story “Everyone has their reasons,” he continues we mostly hear about the banlieue through clichés people have no idea what the banlieue even is It’s important to try and explain that it’s more complex than that You have to get them to look at it different When I see the way people look at the film — especially overseas since there’s such a specific image of France — they’re just petrified (laughs).” The film immediately sparks comparison to Training Day if only because the narrative set-up of a rookie or newbie going out on the field with more experienced Les Misérables is not quite as dark or as nihilistic as Training Day gets but Ly remains flattered by the comparison “I liked Training Day a lot and there are some similarities but it does take some pretty American twists (…) My cinema — or at the very least the cinema I want to make — is about real topics We’re not often granted the right to speak It’s important for me and people like me to tell new stories What I want to do is break that mold and do something new I created a cinema school called l’École Kourtrajmé in Montfermeil,” he continues “It’s been open for a year and we’ve trained about 30 young people produced five shorts and are developing two features But the idea really is to train young people to make movies We’re in the process of opening five schools in Africa: Sénégal The end goal is to open schools all over the world and give them the keys so they can tell their own stories So we’re trying to offer that opportunity to everyone.” ■ Les Misérables opens in Montreal theatres on Friday I spent the day with the renowned chef and restaurateur sourcing rainbow trout in Montebello and watching her assemble a perfect crudo at her restaurant in the Village One of the most complete and enjoyable restaurant experiences anywhere A chance to get away from it all for a few hours, not far from Paris, and discover places that are easily accessible by metro, RER, bus or Transilien. Walking tours, exhibitions, festivals, shows and cinema.. original exhibitions and new attractions.. discover the program of outings in the Paris region this weekend Cocorico, the free educational farm in Herblay-sur-Seine (95)In Herblay-sur-Seine, don't miss Cocorico, the town's educational farm: free and open to all, it's a great opportunity for a family outing to the farm. [Read more] so that young and old alike can experience a complete immersion in the heart of the famous magical tale of Beauty and the Beast A dinner and show package also allows you to dine before the show (€40 per adult count €15 per adult and €5 per child or student let's go to Montfermeil to discover the most poetic outing of the moment Benedetta Tagliabue was born in Milan (June 24 1963) and graduated from the University of Venice in 1989 In 1991 she joined Enric Miralles’ studio eventually becoming a partner includes several high-profile buildings and projects in Barcelona: Parque Diagonal Mar (1997-2002) Head Office Gas Natural (1999-2006) and the Market and Quarter Santa Caterina (1996-2005) including the School of Music in Hamburg (1997-2000) and the City Hall in Utrecht (1996-2000).In 1998 the partnership won the competition to design the new Scottish Parliament building Tagliabue took leadership of the team as joint Project Director and the Parliament was completed in 2004 winning several awards.She won the competition for the new design of Hafencity Harbor in Hamburg and the Spanish Pavilion for Expo Shanghai 2010 among others.Today under the direction of Benedetta Tagliabue the Miralles-Tagliabue-EMBT studio works with architectural projects trying to conserve the spirit of the Spanish and Italian artisan architectural studio tradition which espouses collaboration rather than specialization.Their architectural philosophy is dedicating special attention to context.Benedetta has written for several architectural magazines and has taught at the University of Architecture ETSAB in Barcelona She has lectured at many international architectural Forums as the Architectural Association and Bartlett School in Archive Projects DRC: Former President Joseph Kabila will not appear in Chebeya case South Africa launches the continent’s first vaccine factory for Covid-19 Copyright © 2025 | WordPress Theme by MH Themes Leading the way to greener and smarter mobility Our ambition is to accompany all transportation stakeholders in meeting tomorrow’s mobility challenges We strive to provide them with the most efficient and digital mobility systems while further improving the environmental friendliness of our solutions We offer products from the broadest portfolio range in the rail industry Our innovation focus is on green and smart solutions Our state-of-the-art signalling solutions allow operators to ensure the highest standards in safe seamless travel with urban and mainline solutions that meet the specific needs of each operation environment With the widest components portfolio in the rail industry Alstom offers the best solution available to original equipment manufacturers for increasingly safe and environmentally-friendly travel We offer a complete range of sustainable solutions for tracklaying electrification and the supply and installation of electromechanical material along the entire track We provide solutions to deliver security and fluidity to passengers and operations by optimising real-time performance in signalling and multimodality by offering connectivity and automating driving We offer a complete range of customised services including maintenance All of which ensure operators the highest level of availability for their fleets Drawing on our complementary business lines we offer bundled and fully integrated systems that include rolling stock This turnkey approach optimises project execution and transport system performance Find the latest Alstom press releases and news The one stop shop for all relevant information for investors and shareholders Access our financial & share information shareholders' meetings and investors' contacts & presentations Select the agenda platform you whish to add the event on : Alstom Equity Story Universal Registration Document 2023/24 including the annual financial report we value curious and innovative people who are passionate about working together to reinvent mobility where diverse people are offered opportunities to learn with options across functions and geographies 14 December 2019 – After entering commercial service in September 2019 on the Tram 4 line between Bondy and Aulnay-sous-Bois Alstom's Citadis Dualis tram-trains are now starting service on the extension of the Tram 4 line between Livry-Gargan Alstom received an order to supply 15 Citadis Dualis tram-trains to Île-de-France Mobilités and SNCF Transilien for approximately 75 million euros with Île-de-France Mobilités covering 100% of the investment cost of the trains both to contribute to a technical challenge - since a rail mode and an urban mode will coexist on the Tram 4 line - and to participate in a human project that will allow the inhabitants of these areas of Seine-Saint-Denis to have a new reliable and comfortable means of transport," underlined Jean-Baptiste Eyméoud Designed to meet the increased need for mobility between urban and suburban networks the Citadis Dualis tram-train links the centre of town with the suburbs without any break in continuity by combining the advantages of the train with those of the tram Based on the design of Alstom's Citadis tram the Dualis version retains the fundamental characteristics that sealed the tram’s success: modularity Citadis Dualis can run on a tramway network just as easily as on a regional rail network thanks to certain adaptations in power This configuration makes it a versatile means of transport: its tram gauge means it can circulate in town enables it to transport passengers at speeds of nearly 100 km/h in outlying areas without the need to change transport modes Citadis Dualis contributes to sustainable mobility by revitalising urban spaces and highlighting the architectural heritage of cities 78 Citadis Dualis tram-trains are running in France today 24 in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and 24 in Pays-de-la-Loire Alstom received an order to supply 34 additional Citadis Dualis tram-trains to Île-de-France Mobilités and SNCF Transilien with Île-de-France Mobilités covering 100% of the trains’ investment cost 23 trains are destined for the Tram 12 Express Massy/Evry line and 11 for the Tram 13 Express Saint-Cyr/Saint-Germain line These trains are currently being developed and produced at the Alstom site in Valenciennes Petite-Forêt Seven Alstom sites in France are involved in the design and manufacture: Valenciennes for the trains and project management Villeurbanne for the on-board computerised systems and passenger information Petit-Quevilly for the transformers and Saint-Ouen for the design more than 200 Alstom tram-trains (Citadis Dualis and Regio Citadis) have already been sold and have travelled more than 50 million kilometres This Alstom technology is also being exported with the Citadis Spirit adapted to the North American market and adopted by the cities of Ottawa and Toronto in Canada in 2013 and 2017 You don't have permission to access the page you requested What is this page?The website you are visiting is protected.For security reasons this page cannot be displayed Enric Miralles Benedetta Tagliabue (EMBT) and Bordas+Peiro have been announced as winner among five proposals of a two-stage competition to design the future Clichy - Montfermeil metro station in Paris is part of the ambitious Grand Paris Express project which seeks to modernize the existing transport network and create an automatic metro that will connect new neighborhoods to the city EMBT’s proposal will provide a new public square for the renewed neighborhood of Clichy-sous-bois that will serve as a symbol of change following the violent riots of 2005 “We want to transform this grey and abandoned area into a vivid and colorful plaza that will inspire joy and optimism,” stated EMBT “Our approach is looking for the maximum integration of the metro station’s access into the urban context The access is made through a slow slope with stairs that invites the people coming out of the station to participate on the square the installations and the building of the station the bicycle parking and continues on an important part of the square protecting an area dedicated in the future to a periodical market (organized on Wednesday and Friday).” “The idea was to give a new identity to this place with a glance to the origins of many of his inhabitants We would like to transform this grey and abandoned place into a vivid and colorful square This is why we based the motives of the pavement decorative motives and colors from Africa.” circulation is established within a single space illuminated by natural light The character of this space is given by the panels that cover the organic shape of the void the same as the panels of the outside pergola the Grand Paris Express project is expected to serve two million passengers daily adding 205 new miles of track and 72 new stations that will connect to three airports and France's high-speed rail (TGV) Elizabeth de Portzamparc (AECDP) has already been awarded the commission for the Bourget RER station A winner of the Saint-Denis Pleyel station will be announced late October You'll now receive updates based on what you follow Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors If you have done all of this and still can't find the email The tunnel boring machine (TBM) Mireille has broken through at the future Clichy-Montfermeil station on the under-construction Line 16 of the Paris Metro having bored 2.2km from the Bel-Air site in Chelles It is the latest milestone on the Grand Paris Express, the £28bn project to deliver 200km of new metro lines and 68 new stations in the suburbs of Paris. which is under development by Italian firm Webuild and French company NGE The firms celebrated the emergence of Mireille with the mayors or Clichy-sous-Bois and Montfermeil both of whom are representatives of the client Société du Grand Paris Some locals watched on via a giant TV screen near the site Mireille will soon continue on its journey northwards boring another 3.1km through the municipalities of Livry-Gargan and Sevran to reach the work site at Mare au Chanvre in Sevran There it will meet Webuild and NGE’s other TBM which is tunnelling the line from north to south Webuild and NGE are tunnelling 11km for the 29km Line 16 and creating four new stations It follows on from their partnership on Lot 4 of the Grand Paris Express which extended Line 14 southward by 4.1km to reach Orly Airport Line 16 will run between Saint-Denis Pleyel and Noisy-Champs carrying an estimated 200,000 passengers a day Like what you've read? To receive New Civil Engineer's daily and weekly newsletters click here. Tagged with: A large structure apparently made of concrete and dozens of wind turbines… The anticipated cost of the Neom gigaproject in Northwest Saudi Arabia have… Saudi Arabia’s giga-project Neom, the world’s largest civil engineering project which includes… Firms involved in Neom should consider the “political and reputational risks” of… You don't have permission to access the page you requested. What is this page?The website you are visiting is protected.For security reasons this page cannot be displayed. DIAPORAMA : JR et Ladj Ly, "28 millimètres, Portrait d'une génération" En 2004 , un an avant les émeutes, JR tire le portrait des jeunes des Bosquets, à Clichy-Montfermeil, la cité de Zyed et Bouna. Ces photos, Ladj Ly les change en affiches et les colle dans Paris. Ensemble, ils font entrer la banlieue dans l'univers de ceux qui n'y vont jamais. Braquage, Ladj Ly by JR, Les Bosquets, Montfermeil, 2004 Collage Ladj Ly by JR, Montfermeil, Les Bosquets, 2004 Byron, La Forestière, Clichy-Sous-Bois, 2006 Ladj Ly, Paris, 19ème arrondissement, 2004 Christoph, Paris, 5ème arrondissement, 2004 Bélé, Paris, 20ème arrondissement, 2004 Les Bosquets, 2004 Caballero (English translation) Lyrics[Verse 1 : Lomepal]Pay me some dream new demon on earsWhen it's new it's betterI don't believe in peace I only believe in the last sleep (ohohoh)Five absinthe glasses you're trusting me bewareI'm riddled with bad intentionsThem having the Devil in them doesn't make me a saintMidnight I leave the appartment I leave my consciousness on a hangerLast night we won't cover up burn out with concealerOhlala still we recorded FLIP in my bedroomCousin you can do it all yourself[Chorus : Lomepal & Caballero]I did see a Punto becoming a cabriolet in the middle of August in MontfermeilGrinder can do wondersFour grams in stock only God knows if it will lead us somewhereEven if it's death I've alays liked leaving without saying "goodbye"Olala living poorly was embarrassingRevenge in the genes once freed from the old onesI went to buy me some new chains (ohohoh)You might also like[Verse 2 : Caballero]Worth it's not worth it anymore trying to make me jealousBye bye the stormy sky I've lost sight of hatredIf I wanna see her again there's Twitter baby let's forget this togetherTurn off everything I'm not focusedYou said you wanted us to help each other if you just want my energyMultiply a Red Bull by ten but I won't be your friendBesides there's only sharks in your pool partiesLast night I dreamt that we were slowing downTo succeed my phalanxes are bleeding from itDo you smell Money and her perfumeMy life of before wants us to get back together end[Chorus : Lomepal & Caballero]One day I saw a Punto becoming a cabriolet in the middle of August in MontfermeilGrinder can do wondersFour grams in stock I've alays liked leaving without saying "goodbye"Of course I'll leave without saying goodbye[Outro : Lomepal]AlrightEmbedCancelHow to Format Lyrics: To learn more, check out our transcription guide or visit our transcribers forum Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning