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Riz Ahmed

Souheila Yacoub

Yousfi Henine

Isabelle Adjani

Sandor Funtek

Suzy Bemba

Soumaye Bocoum

Aissatou Diallo Sagna

Abdelrani Bendaher

Jamil McCraven

Robin Goldbronn

Rosa Attab

Thomas Benski

Meredith Duff

Gary Farkas

Rose Ford

Clément Lepoutre

Olivier Muller

Bethani Stainfield-Bruce

Ruari Stainfield-Bruce

Sarah Sullivan

Maëva Tenneroni

Paul Ozgur

Benoît Soler

Rich Orrick

David Bersanetti

Alexandre Mattiussi

Anaïs Couette

Cyril Pavaux

Pierre Carlier

Simon Farkas

Oliver Coates

Johann Pätzold

Dan Rodgers

Josepha Madoki

Yann Demange

Rafael Bolivar

Paul Colange

Arthur Paux

J.J. Hathaway

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"Mounir" (Riz Ahmed) is the Londoner who returns to Paris, the city of his birth, to try and reconnect with his father. This man (Yousfi Henine) arrived from colonial Algeria, changed his name to "Joe" and tried to assimilate into French society. His wife managed to have three kids - by three different men of differing skin colours before she moved to on the UK without him. With a cultural maelstrom both ahead and behind the traveller, we now experience some of his emotions as he reminisces about the past - real and imagined - before meeting "Hafzia" (Souheila Yacoub) who offers him a glimmer of what a future might mean in a city where he has many roots, yet none. There may well be something autobiographical about this short feature from Yann Demange but even so, it's an oddly shallow and meandering wander around the night-spots of Paris accompanied by Ahmed's strained narration. It's telling us all about the contrasting cultures as the Arab meets the Parisian who ends up being a Londoner, but their characterisations offer us little more than you might expect from a romantic "visit Paris" video. Why did we need to know about the colour of his mother's other partners, for example? Isabelle Adjani's cabaret performance adds little but an extra bit of stardom to the credits and I am afraid I just didn't quite see the point of this rather self-indulgent critique of identity.

Riz Ahmed channels Yann Mounir Demange in DAMMI | MUBI Podcast

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