Bad Faith

2006 · Movie · 88 min. · Belgium

Comedy

Roschdy Zem and Cecile de France star as a Muslim Arab and a Jewish woman who find their four-year love affair. Ishmael (Zem) is a music instructor at a Paris conservatory. His widowed mother still lives in the housing project in which her son was raised, and his Jewish best friend is the proprietor of a popular independent record store. Clara (France) is a physical therapist who specializes in helping motor-impaired children and whose retired parents live with her single sister in the family's comfortable suburban home. Secular thirty-somethings who never put much credence in adhering to their respective faiths, Ishmael and Clara have remained together for four fun-filled years without incidence. When Clara discovers that she has become pregnant with Ishmael's child, however, the couple's carefree romance threatens to grow complicated as their ethnic backgrounds bleed into the forefront of their consciences and they struggle with how to reveal the development to their traditional-minded parents.

Direction Roschdy Zem

Cast Cécile De France · Roschdy Zem · Pascal Elbé · Jean-Pierre Cassel · Martine Chevallier · Bérangère Bonvoisin · Leïla Bekhti · Naima Lamcharki · Antoine Chappey · Mickaël Masclet · Abdelhafid Metalsi · David Elmaleh · André Oumansky · Jean-Claude Frissung