Princess Rita: A Texas rancher’s daughter landed a dream role as a Roman princess.His goal? Ridding the capital of the scourge of plastic bags. Cleaning Up Senegal: Dressed head to toe in plastic, Modou Fall is a familiar sight in Dakar.A focus on housing, her own modest lifestyle and a hard childhood have helped her popularity. A Marxist Mayor: A Communist politician in Graz, Austria, wants to redistribute wealth.His recovery is a marvel of medicine, chance and his own spirit. Reclaiming His Voice: While on a rescue mission in Ukraine, an aspiring opera singer was shot in the lungs.Going Gray : The prominent news anchor Lisa LaFlamme was unceremoniously dismissed not long after she stopped dyeing her hair - setting off debates across Canada.Ly was the child with the video camera in his pocket, filming rough police “interventions,” partly to protect the banlieues ’ inhabitants and often suffering the consequences.Įxplore The Times’s Saturday Profiles They are shaping the world around them. The last major one, Mathieu Kassovitz’s “La Haine” (“Hatred”), in 1995, was made by an outsider.īefore becoming a professional filmmaker, Mr. Authentic films about the banlieues are rare in France. He is part of this ill-understood world, grew up in it and still lives there. Ly’s film, “ Les Misérables,” is its intimacy. Ly a top prize at Cannes and is France’s candidate for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars. Ly, 39, the son of a garbage collector from Mali, has put his whole life into a sharp-edged film that depicts the harshness of the French capital’s immigrant suburbs - the banlieues - that has won applause from French film critics of all political stripes, made President Emmanuel Macron sit up and take notice, garnered Mr. The message comes directly from his own experience. PARIS - From barren territory on the outskirts of Paris, Ladj Ly hit movie theaters last month with an urgent message: Multicultural France is here, it is real and it is not in good shape.
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