Ladj Ly Talks Housing Crisis Drama ‘Les Indésirables’; Police Violence & Plans For A Next Project In Africa – Toronto
deadline.comFrench director Ladj Ly is at the Toronto International Film Festival this weekend with second feature Les Indésirables. Like Ly’s breakthrough first feature Les Misérables, it is set and shot against the backdrop of Paris’s deprived eastern suburbs of Clichy-Montfermeil where the director grew up.
Having put the spotlight on police violence in his debut feature, Ly turns his attention to the growing housing crisis in his neighborhood as long-time residents are displaced by gentrification.
Anta Diaw stars as a local housing officer of Malian descent who decides to run for mayor as an alternative to the newly arrived, authoritarian, right-wing incumbent.
Under his watch, the tower block she calls home is ear-marked for demolition, with no guarantee of adequate, local accommodation for its long-time residents.
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