the top 10 of the year 2025 from the Culture service of “Libé” – Libération

Marseille, the entire 90s, the hits of the golden age of Oran raï, exile, love, learning, winter light on the sea, there is everything and more in this film by Saïd Hamich Benlarbi, which carries away and resolves through music, its addictive historical melancholy, the frictions of French fictional cinema, its old tensions between story and character, between era and individual. Young Nour, who arrived without papers from Oujda (north-eastern Morocco) in Bouches-du-Rhône, ages there for a decade in contact with secondary characters of sublime complexity. Strength of a melodrama which seeks to give to poorly told, poorly heard stories the sentimental and political breadth of which cinema is sometimes capable. L.C.

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