2010 · drama · war · political
Outside the Law
Directed by Rachid Bouchareb2h 17m2010
After losing their family home in Algeria in the 1920s, three brothers and their mother are scattered across the globe. Messaoud joins the French army fighting in Indochina; Abdelkader becomes a leader of the Algerian independence movement in France and Saïd moves to Paris to make his fortune in the shady clubs and boxing halls of Pigalle.
Our read: Outside the Law (2010) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded drama · war · political entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme drama / war, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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