The New York Times by Devika Girish
An acute awareness of the relationship between memory, whether personal or collective, and identity emerges as the engine of We.
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France · 2022
1h 55m
Director Alice Diop
Starring Ismael Soumaïla Sissoko, N'deye Sighane Diop, Pierre Bergounioux, Marcel Balnoas
Genre Documentary
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Documentarian Alice Diop explores a diverse community of people living in the suburbs of Paris, all connected by the RER B train they use to commute. Diop documents the distinctly different lives of immigrants, adolescents, and her own family, examining the ties that bind communities together.
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The New York Times by Devika Girish
An acute awareness of the relationship between memory, whether personal or collective, and identity emerges as the engine of We.
Diop’s small but potent act of subversion, in choosing disparate lives and moments that could seem linked by a railway line and nothing more, is not just to enlarge the idea of who is meant by the collective French “We.” It is also to reclaim the selection process for inclusion within that tiny, divided pronoun.
Screen Daily by Lisa Nesselson
A subtle, respectful and enlightening patchwork of contemporary French lives.
The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw
It’s a film which needs an investment of attention, but there is a great observational intelligence and sympathy at work.
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