The second movie of Rachid Bouchareb after "The days of glory", it is like a sequel but not, it focuses on the Algerian struggle to have the independence from France after the WWII, and especially the struggle by the Algerians living in France.
The film making is better then the last one - The days of glory - , with a beautiful music and cinematography, a great performance of the actors which are the same from The days of glory, and amazingly they played the same characters in the two movies: Saïd, Messaoud, Abdelkader. In "The days of glory" they were just friends of the battlefield, in "Outside the Law" they were brothers. In my opinion the use of the same characters by Rachid Bouchareb was very intelligent, it marks the fact that in every one of the Algerian people during the struggle there was Saïd, Messaoud or Abdelkader, those characters are a kind of a factorial of many stories in the struggle of the Algerian people.
Despite the little poor story that did not reflect precisely all the aspects of the struggle by the Algerians living in France, the movie was nominated for an Oscar in the category of Foreign Language Film (83rd academy awards).
It is a nice movie; it shows a historical reality unknown by many persons.
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The film making is better then the last one - The days of glory - , with a beautiful music and cinematography, a great performance of the actors which are the same from The days of glory, and amazingly they played the same characters in the two movies: Saïd, Messaoud, Abdelkader. In "The days of glory" they were just friends of the battlefield, in "Outside the Law" they were brothers. In my opinion the use of the same characters by Rachid Bouchareb was very intelligent, it marks the fact that in every one of the Algerian people during the struggle there was Saïd, Messaoud or Abdelkader, those characters are a kind of a factorial of many stories in the struggle of the Algerian people.
Despite the little poor story that did not reflect precisely all the aspects of the struggle by the Algerians living in France, the movie was nominated for an Oscar in the category of Foreign Language Film (83rd academy awards).
It is a nice movie; it shows a historical reality unknown by many persons.
--http://theearthdiary.blogspot.com/