Film · Documentary, History
La banlieue, c’est le paradis (2025)
In the 1960s, the suburbs were meant to be modern havens for newcomers from rural France, Portugal, Spain, North Africa, and Africa, helping rebuild post-war France. Large housing complexes symbolized this ideal, offering comfort, heating, and electricity. But by the 1980s, disillusionment set in as economic crisis, unemployment, poverty, crime, racism, and police violence took hold. Mohamed Bouhafsi tells the story of a dream that didn’t last.
- Director
- Nathalie Conscience
- Writers
- Mohamed Bouhafsi, Nathalie Conscience
- Country
- France
- Language
- French
- Release date
- February 13, 2025
Cast
Mohamed BouhafsiSelf - Host, Interviewer & Narrator
Nassira BouhafsiSelf - Guest
Farida KhelfaSelf - Guest
Fabien RousselSelf - Guest
Sofiane ZermaniSelf - Guest
Emmanuel MacronSelf - Guest
AkhenatonSelf - Guest
Sabrina OuazaniSelf - Guest
Franck GastambideSelf - Guest
François HollandeSelf - Guest
Jean-Louis BorlooSelf - Guest
Dominique TapieSelf - Guest
Nicolas SarkozySelf - Guest
Anne-Élisabeth LemoineSelf - Guest
Xavier NielSelf - Guest
François MitterrandSelf (archive footage)
Renaud EpsteinSelf - Sociologist- Adjera Lakehal-BrafmanSelf - Guest
- Corinne AngeliniSelf - Guest
Bernard TapieSelf - Politician, businessman (archive footage)
