"Meufs de la cité": an edifying documentary on the isolation of the suburbs

INTERVIEW

After

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, France 2 broadcasts Monday evening in the second part of the

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, the last part of the triptych signed Bouchera Azzouz.

The documentary focuses on a third generation of women who grew up in French cities.

And like the two previous ones, he points out the differences between the suburbs and the rest of French society, and even within the cities.

"They realize that they live in cities where there is no more diversity, not at all"

"It's true that we still feel that there is this somewhat fashionable word, which is separatism. We have the impression of coming from two different worlds and even inside the city, boys, it's also another world ", explains Monday on Europe 1 the director, who follows in her film four young women coming out of adolescence.

"There are two worlds in a world and we are all different worlds, almost. It is not that, to make society", she regrets.

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In support of her point, Bouchera Azzouz quotes an excerpt from the film, in which one of the young women recounts having attended, during her schooling and her childhood, very few white women.

"It is for me the most edifying moment of the film", estimates the director.

"They are looking, and they realize, when I ask them the question, that indeed, they live in cities where there is no more diversity, no longer at all. And when one says, since very small, I count on the fingers of one hand (the white people that I crossed), there is nevertheless to ask the question of the relation to the organization of our society and the fact that we have an ethnicization neighborhoods. And that is very, very serious. "

"We have to ask ourselves the question of how we got there"

The film shows another, lighter example when the four young women walk around Paris and seem to discover a new world, even imitating the behavior of Parisiennes.

"Yes, it's quite funny. Indeed, there is an almost cultural difference", smiles the director.

"We are from the urban culture, but at the same time, we like a lot. Me, I claim the fact of being a suburbanite, of having grown up in a city. It is not a defect. We also learn a lot, we has values. "

Still, the situation is problematic, and we have to get out of it.

"We have to ask ourselves the question of how we got there. We have been for 40 years of a succession of city policies in city policy, and we forget one thing that is fundamental, it is the human ", points Bouchera Azzouz.

"We have redone the cities, they tell me the cities are very beautiful, yes, but at the same time, did we ask ourselves the question of how we allocate the housing? There is a real ethnicization of the allocation of housing in working-class neighborhoods, to buy social peace. And that is not normal. "