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Where the Heart Is
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Where the Heart Is

1998-12-09 · 113 min · ★ 6.1

Comedy · Drama · Romance

From the director of Marius et Jeannette, this story of two working-class families is a fable with an optimist streak. A young black man, Francois, is wrongly accused of rape by a racist policeman. The story is told in voiceover by his childhood friend, neighbor, and the mother of his future child, Clementine, who is white. The city is Marseilles as in the previous film, symbolic with its churches, prisons and ruins. Except in this film, director Robert Guediguian also ventures outside, taking the story to Sarajevo; two different cities, one devastated by war, the other by a bad economy and unemployment. A la Place du coeur won a Special Jury Prize at the 1998 San Sebastian Film Festival and was also shown at the 1998 Toronto Film Festival and the 1998 Montreal Film Festival.

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Directors
Robert Guédiguian
Production companies
Agat Films & Cie / Ex Nihilo, Canal+, Diaphana Films
Countries
France
Status
Released

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Ariane AscarideAriane AscarideMarianne Patché
Christine BrücherChristine BrücherFrancine Lopez
Jean-Pierre DarroussinJean-Pierre DarroussinJoël Patché
Gérard MeylanGérard MeylanFranck Lopez
Alexandre OgouAlexandre OgouFrancois 'Bébé' Lopez
Laure RaoustClémentine 'Clim' Patché
Véronique BalmeSoeurette
Pierre BanderetPierre BanderetMr. d'Assas
Patrick BonnelPatrick BonnelJaime
Djamal BouananeKhalil
Jacques BoudetJacques BoudetMr Levy
Guillaume CantillonDaniel Corti
Jean-Jérôme EspositoJean-Jérôme EspositoLe Gringalet
Marius GrygielewiczPiet Radic
Aurore MensahBlondine
Beata NilskaBeata NilskaMme Radic
Laetitia PesentiLaetitia PesentiL'institutrice
Jacques PieillerLe flic
Hélène SurgèreHélène SurgèreLa marchande
Abdramane DiakiteBébé enfant

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