Chroniques d’une Cour de Récré - feedback

This movie is about childhood memories, and it also shows the care to the immigrants’ ordinary life in 1980s’ France. We found plenty of elements that represent the immigrants’ life in this film:  the protagonist, Brahim, is one of 3 sons of a Morocco immigrant family; while his friend is a son of a political refugee family from Chile. The images of suburb area (it took a long time for Brahim to reach school from home) and abandoned factory represent the marginalization of those immigrant groups. On the contrary, school shows as the core of Frenchness that has lots of regulations, in which Brahim and his friend are frequently punished. So the “playground” (Chroniques in France) for our protagonist means the abandoned factory and the nearby suburb area, such places once gave happy memories to the kids, however, it will be extinguished away. For the characters in this film, their marginal situation in the France society and the uncertainty of life make them easily to be weak and depressed. But this film is not only about the depression but also about the hope. The city’s old library was burned down, so the mayor of the city asked school children to paint their home and promised to collect their works in the new library. City’s library represents the common memories of the city’s people. Why Brahim is so urgently to find his work that exhibited in the hall? It is because that by this way he, as an immigrant, can be accepted into the French society, and the French society also gains its common memories with those diversity nations of people. 

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