Andalucia
Screening on Film
Free Admission
Free Admission
Directed by Alain Gomis.
With Samir Guesmi, Delphine Zingg, Djolof Mbengue.
France, 2007, 35mm, color, 90 min.
French with English subtitles.
Print source: Mille et une productions
With Samir Guesmi, Delphine Zingg, Djolof Mbengue.
France, 2007, 35mm, color, 90 min.
French with English subtitles.
Print source: Mille et une productions
Gomis regular Samir Guesmi stars as an eccentric outsider, a French-Algerian social worker inspired by a never fully explained identity crisis to abandon family and home to start a new life on the far edge of Paris. Living in a trailer home alongside circus performers, Gomis’ awkward everyman drifts in search of a new connection to French society while reconsidering his past, recalled through a series of fragmentary flashbacks. An edgy and formally bold companion piece to L’Afrance, Andalucia expands upon the earlier film’s portrait of Paris as a vibrant yet unstable postcolonial mosaic of displaced immigrant communities.