Zim and Co. (2005)

Original title

Zim and Co

Directed by

Pierre Jolivet

Genre

comedy film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 28m

Rated

14

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young man in the Paris suburbs struggles to find a job while facing prejudice and shady dealings. He sticks with his friends as they try to get by in a tough environment.

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What happens

Zim and Co. is a 2005 French film directed by Pierre Jolivet. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival, the first time a film by Jolivet had been selected. The film won the Grand Prize of the third Festival of European Film in Ljubljana (2008), organized by EUNIC (the European Union of National Institutes for Culture). Adrien Jolivet (son of the director), in his first film, who also co-composed the soundtrack, was nominated for the César Meilleur Espoir Masculin (Most Promising Newcomer) in 2006. Jolivet described the themes of the film as "those who young people living in suburbs deal with: employment problems, prejudices, racism, violence, lack of sympathy, shady dealings and repression but above all friendship and perseverance". In order to grasp the daily reality of today’s young people, Pierre Jolivet gave an early version of the screenplay to Adrien and his friend Yannick Nasso, two of the main characters of the film to verifty how authentic it was. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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