Amin

Amin (Moustapha Mbengue) works as a hired hand for a building company based in a Paris suburb. He lives in a hostel that he shares with other African immigrants including a Moroccan co-worker who unlike Amin cannot adjust to his circumstances. That’s not to say Amin doesn’t miss home and his wife and three children, to whom he sends money and whatever gifts he can afford. Then he encounters Gabrielle (Emmanuelle Devos), a middle-aged French divorcée whose house Amin has been hired to renovate. As time passes, an intimacy develops between the two and they gradually open up about their lives. Faucon’s film revels in the details of Amin’s life and is aided in no small part by Mbengue and Devos’ moving performances.

Premiered at the Director’s Fortnight in Cannes and London Film Festival in 2018.

2018  91 mins Cert 18

Original language French, Wolof

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Philippe Faucon is a French film director, screenwriter and producer. He was born in Oujda (Morocco) in 1958, the son of a French soldier and an Algerian pied-noir mother. He grew up between Morocco and Algeria, where his father did his military service.

After completing his studies in French Literature at the University of Aix-Marseille, he began to work as an assistant director for Jacques Demy (Trois places pour le 26), Leos Carax (Mauvais sang) and René Allio (Un médecin des Lumières).

In 1984 he directed his first short film, titled La Jeunesse. After a couple of short films and documentaries for television, his encounter with the maverick French producer Humbert Balsan led to the production of his first feature-length fiction film, L’Amour (1989, Perspectives du Cinéma award at Cannes). Humbert Balsan went on to produce his next five films. In 2005, he founded Istiqlal Films with Yasmina Nini-Faucon.

Working for both cinema and television and often with non-professional actors, Philippe Faucon’s film credits as a writer–director include: Sabine (TV, 1992), Mes dix-sept ans (tv, 1996), Muriel fait le désespoir de ses parents (1997), Les Étrangers (1999), Samia (2000), Grégoire peut mieux faire (TV, 2001), La Trahison (2005) and the acclaimed Dans la vie (2007). He has also directed a number of TV series episodes.

In 2015, his film Fatima was screened in the Directors' Fortnight section of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. Fatima was awarded the Louis Delluc Prize for Best Film, the César Award for Best Film and for Best Adaptation, as well as the César for most promising actress for Zita Hanrot.

Although little known in the UK, Philippe Faucon’s films and TV series have won critical and public acclaim in France for their engagement in the world we live in and their poetic and subtle approach to the stories, subject matters.

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