Blame It on Voltaire

2000·France·130 min.
Blame It on Voltaire
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Young Moroccan Jallel (Sami Bouajila) comes looking for the lights of Paris but instead finds black-market jobs and crowded hostels. Yet he also discovers a bracing solidarity between newcomers and outcasts from French society, especially Lucie (Elodie Bouchez, from "Dreamlife of Angels"), a disturbed young Frenchwoman who will give Jallel a distinctive experience of his new country.