Interview with filmmaker ABDELLATIF KECHICHE in Time Out London
An interview with French-Tunisian director Abdellatif Kechiche is featured in this week’s London edition of Time Out. The filmmaker’s past films include LA FAUTE A VOLTAIRE and L’ESQUIVE and he has garnered numerous awards for his latest feature LA GRAIN ET LE MULET. (Which in the past has been translated to “THE SECRET OF THE GRAIN” but is now apparently “COUSCOUS.” Much catchier, I say).
COUSCOUS was the winner of four Césars (France’s Oscars) including best picture, and winner of the 2007 FIPRESCI and Special Jury prizes at the Venice Film Festival. The film is a minutely detailed, sharply observed portrait of the immigrant generation contending with its French-born offspring and the dominant culture in a time when they are no longer the freshest émigrés off the boat.
