La banlieue, c’est le paradis
- Documentary
- History
2/13/2025
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Storyline
In the 1960s, the suburbs were meant to be modern havens for newcomers from rural France, Portugal, Spain, North Africa, and Africa, helping rebuild post-war France. Large housing complexes symbolized this ideal, offering comfort, heating, and electricity. But by the 1980s, disillusionment set in as economic crisis, unemployment, poverty, crime, racism, and police violence took hold. Mohamed Bouhafsi tells the story of a dream that didn’t last.
- Director:
- future
- solidarity
- drug trafficking
- hope
- delinquency
- multiculturalism
- racism
- real
- juvenile delinquency
- memories
- drug
- present
- history
- mutual aid
- 20th century
- diversity
- urban landscape
- pass
- 2000's
- 2010's
- 1950's
- 1970's
- parisian suburbs
- 1980's
- archival images
- disadvantaged neighborhoods
- 1960's
- 1990's
- 2020's
- french suburbs
- equal opportunities
- liberty equality fraternity
- abandonment of french suburbs
- abandonment of parisian suburbs
- policies
- neighborhood associations
- abandonment of policies
- multiralism
- cosmopolitanism
- living well together
- cliches
- prejudices
- sarkozy's pressure washer
- sarkozy's karcher
- march against racism
- slums
- french slums
- the suburb is paradise