Souviens-toi de moi
France,
1995, 57 min
Shown in 1996
CREDITS
- dir
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Zaïda Ghorad-Volta
- prod
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Daniele Incalcaterra
- scr
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Zaïda Ghorad-Volta
- cam
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Emmanuelle Le Fur, Hélèn Louvart
- editor
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Yvan Gaillard, Gilles Volta
- cast
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Zaïda Ghorad-Volta, Zarha Bénaissa, Salah Teskouk, Thierry Lorent
- prod co
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Voleur-Production
- source
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Voleur Productions
- premiere
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International Premiere
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COMMENTS
Zaïda Ghorad-Volta in person.
OTHER
Zaïda Ghorab-Volta shows all the pluck of her protagonist in directing her first feature, propitiously titled Remember Me. We will. Mimouna (played by Ghorab-Volta) is a young French-Algerian woman who lives with her family in a flat on the outskirts of Paris. We know two or three things about these suburban housing projects and the alienation of young people raised there, but Ghorab-Volta wastes little time on sociology and even less on sentiment. This is a household run on anger and lies—the anger of parents whose hearts are in Algeria but whose hopes are in France, the resourceful lies of children in need of an identity. Weary, Mimouna quits a deadening job and a dead-end relationship to go with her parents to Algeria for the summer. The serenely cloistered world of her cousins offers a perspective on family as refuge and prison in this “country of mirages.” In a few beautifully executed strokes Ghorab-Volta paints a picture of two cultures, each, in its way, a mirage. Mimouna finally draws strength from skating their mysteries.
—Judy Bloch
FACTOID #65
The combined running time for all the films in the Festival is approximately 310,000 minutes. Or to put it another way, 5,167 hours. That’s about 215 days of viewing, 24 hours a day, with no breaks.
