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From writer-director Rachid Bouchareb ("Days of Glory" aka "Indigenes") comes the film "Outside the Law," the story of three brothers who fight for Algeria's independence from France after World War II. After losing their family home in Algeria, three brothers are scattered across the globe. Messaoud joins the French army fighting in Indochina; Abdelkader becomes a leader of the Algerian independence movement; Said moves to Paris to make his fortune in the shady clubs and boxing halls of Pigalle. Gradually, their interconnecting destinies reunite them in the French capital, where freedom is a battle to be fought and won.
we move from 1925 to 1962 over the film's two-and-a-bit hours - but ouchareb adopts a strident perspective by inventing the characters of three Algerian brothers, who we first meet as they're thrown off their land as children in the 1920s. We jump to May 1945, when on the same day as France was celebrating the end of war, a conflict broke out between police and protestors in the Algerian town of Stif, leading thousands of deaths. Bouchareb's argument is that this was a colonial massacre - we watch as scores of men are gunned down in the streets although this episode has caused the most amount of debate prior to film's Cannes screening, with some arguing that Bouchareb has laid the blame for deaths too squarely on the French authorities. Whether or not Bouchareb's emphasis is skewed, surely the point is that it was events such as these in Stif that politicised young men who would later become armed underground fighters? If the perception was of a massacre rather than something more nuanced, that's a valid perspective for the film to take in describing the development of its characters.
Among the chaos at Stif, we again meet Sad (Jamel Debbouze), Messaoud (Roschdy Zem) and Abdelkader (Sami Bouajila), now adults and living in the town with their mother. Time moves on again and the family is fractured: Sad moves to Paris with his mother, moving into a shanty town in Nanterre and earning a living on the shady streets of Pigalle; Abdelkader is arrested in Algeria and ends up in a French jail; and Messaoud goes off to fight for France in Indochina.
