The read
It runs a compact 1h 24m.
Synopsis
In Epinay-sur-Seine, in the neighborhood called « la Source », Ali’s grocery store is the only shop still in business of the decayed shopping center. It’s also the only place left for the forsaken inhabitants of the surrounding tower blocks to meet, a shelter where they can get together and exchange. This documentary film takes us into the everyday life of a small grocery store. As customers pass by, Ali, the charismatic shopkeeper, also part-time singer, is benevolently welcoming them. This moving and often amusing chronicle shows the importance of such a place, a small shop “around the corner”, in the middle of the Projects, where in spite of difficulties and poverty, people still share user-friendliness, laughter, human warmth.
Ratings
4 audience votes
Key crew
- Chantal BrietDirector
- Chantal BrietWriter
- Martin WheelerOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Ali ZebboudjHimself
- Jeanine AnneHerself
- Anne-Marie PigeardHerself
- Jamaa HemmouHimself
- Cyprien GianHimself
- Roberto MeliasHimself
- Akram AzzouzHimself
- Rabbah SeridjHimself