After having walked the streets of the city of Mellila, Malik, Mehdi, Hassan walk now on the cobblestones of the city of Paris, discovering its lights and its chimeras, its joys and its violence… The film also shows how French society, but not only that, is fractured, and how "childhood" and a certain idea of youth can be the first affected.
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This work is the third in director Sylvain George's Obscure Night trilogy, which focuses on African immigrants making their way to Europe. The first part, Obscure Night – Wild Leaves (2022), examines Melilla—an autonomous Spanish city on the Moroccan coast, which serves as a gateway for those seeking to immigrate illegally to Europe from North Africa—and the people assembled there. The second, Obscure Night – Goodbye Here, Anywhere (2023), focused on children representing a younger age group than those in the first part. In contrast, this latest work offers an unvarnished glimpse at how young people live in Paris after passing from childhood into adolescence. Based in the area around the Seine River with the Eiffel Tower visible in the background, the young people seem entirely unconscious of the camera, perhaps because of their long history of interacting with the director. Somber black-and-white scenes unfold, and the film ends with a caption explaining that three of the children have since died from suicide, electrocution, and being shot. Where was the place they wanted to go, and what was the life they dreamed of living? (CHUN Jinsu)
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Sylvain GEORGE
