Black (2015)

Slo naslov: -

Država: Belgija

Jezik: Francoščina, Nizozemščina

Leto: 2015

Dolžina: 95',  Imdb

Žanri: Akcija, Krimi, Drama

Slo recenzija: -

Režija: Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah

Scenarij: Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah, Nele Meirhaeghe

Igrajo: Martha Canga Antonio, Aboubakr Bensaihi, Emmanuel Tahon, Théo Kabeya, Natascha Boyamba, Glodie Lombi, Axel Massudi

[ENG]

A 15-year-old girl in a black gang in Brussels must choose between loyalty and love when she falls for a Moroccan boy from a rival gang. The city of Brussels, plagued by high rates of youth unemployment, is home to nearly forty street gangs, and the number of young people drawn into the city's gang culture increases each year. It's in this criminal milieu that directing duo Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah set Black, a pulse-pounding contemporary take on a Shakespearean tragedy. Worlds collide when Mavela (Martha Canga Antonio), a teenage girl with ties to Brussels' Black Bronx gang, meets Marwan (Aboubakr Bensaihi), a member of a rival Moroccan gang, at a police station. Keenly aware of the consequences of getting involved with someone from another gang, they at first resist their attraction to one another, but they can only resist for so long. Just when they've started to imagine a different life for themselves, a terrifying incident reminds Mavela where she belongs - and, more ...

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Firecracker chemistry between the two leads makes this doomed Romeo and Juliet romance all the more tragically persuasive. Mavela's kittenish little girl voice is utterly beguiling; Marwan's adolescent swagger doesn't quite conceal the sweet boy beneath.

[Wendy Ide, Screen International]

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