Les Innocents (film)

Les Innocents English The Innocents is a 1987 French drama film directed by Andr Tchin and starring Sandrine Bonnaire, Simon de La Brosse and Abdel Kechiche. The plot follows a girl who, whilst looking for her runaway brother, encounters a number of people who influence her life. The film was partially inspired by a William Faulkner novel. Tchin uses several FrenchArab relationships to mirror the tensions between France and its former colonies.

Jeanne, a young woman born and raised in Northern France, is visiting the Mediterranean for the first time. She arrives at the southern French seaport of Toulon to attend the wedding of her older sister Mat to Nourredine, a North African. However, her main goal is to repatriate her deafmute younger brother, Alain, with whom she had been living following the death of their parents. At the wedding celebration, Jeanne meets Klotz, a middle age orchestra conductor prone to drinking. Jeanne reencounter with Alain is not a happy one. She learns that her teenager brother has been supporting himself pickpocketing under the tutelage of Sad, a Frenchman of Algerian descent who approached Jeanne on her arrival in the city. Jeanne sleeps next to her brother but the next morning, Alain runs away stealing all of Jeannes money, even a family heirloom that she has brought as a wedding gift for Mat.Desperate to find Alain, Jeanne goes to the elementary school where Mat works, to see if she knows where Alain might be. Mat is disappointed with her two siblings and she is in no mood to help. In her lunch hour from work, a lover is waiting for Mat, who confesses to Jeanne that she got married with Nourredine only to have a child. ........

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