Movie Recommendation - Shéhérazade

Jean-Bernard Marlin's first feature is a love story set in the slums of Marseille.

A well-crafted first film whose turnoff is its overly familiar storyline, Jean-Bernard Marlin’s Sheherazade is a love story set in the lower depths of Marseille, where the wrong-side-of-the-tracks teen scene seems to be divided along gender lines: The boys deal drugs and the girls walk the streets, with or without pimps to protect them.

The gritty environment and the non-pro cast are convincingly directed by Marlin, a native of Marseille, particularly in the pic's stronger second half.

The Films Boutique release should do some business in France; beyond that, it will be a calling card for the talented young director, who co-wrote the screenplay with Catherine Paillé.

The story seems to have developed out of Marlin's acclaimed 2013 short, La Fugue, about a young delinquent and her counselor, and more particularly from his 2014 documentary Something Fierce, which centers on 15-year-old Jamal and the re-education centers awaiting him.


In Sheherazade, Dylan Robert makes a noteworthy screen debut as a 16-year-old boy of the streets who has just served his first jail sentence and is still looking for easy money.


The heavily sociological focus, similar to other stories searching for audiences all over Europe and North Africa, is distinguished by a strongly individual directing style that focuses tension on the young protags.


https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/sheherazade-1111603

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Kenza Fortas , born on January 26 , 2001 in Bagnols-sur-Cèze ( Gard ), is a French actress.

Born January 26, 2001 in Bagnols-sur-Cèze (Gard), Kenza Fortas grew up in Marseille , 1 in the district of the Belle de Mai , one of the most disadvantaged areas of the city

She was raised by her mother alone and unemployed, lived in a camp of gypsies and home 2 . At the age of 16, she leaves school 2 .

While she was thinking of spending a CAP early childhood 3 , she was spotted by the director Jean-Bernard Marlin 2 , after her mother sent her to the cast of the movie Shéhérazade 3 .

She does not however take the casting or the role seriously and is not far from being thanked by the director 4 , 5 .

In 2018, she climbs on the steps in Cannes 1 . She received the César Award for best female hope for her role in Shéhérazade.


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Dylan Robert , born in 2000 in the 3rd arrondissement of Marseille 1 , is a French actor of Iraqi and Tunisian origin

Dylan Robert thought to become tiler 2 . He stops school at age 12, pretending to go to class. 3

While he is incarcerated for delinquency, an educator tells him about the casting of the director Jean-Bernard Marlin for the film Scheherazade 4 .

According to him, the film then planned was "a good record before the judge" 4 . During the whole shooting, a prison educator accompanies him 3 . Dylan Robert performs several speech therapy sessions before filming 3 .

At the age of 18, he won the César for the best male hope for the film Scheherazade .


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These two actors -- with zero training --- make a mockery of Hollywood 'stars'