Movie #615 ........................."Outside the Law" ("Hors-la-loi")

Movie #615 "Outside the Law" ("Hors-la-loi") won the 2010 best foreign film academy award and the epic scope of it and the acting of the three main guys are deserving. It concerns the algerians fight for freedom from France from the 1930s to 1960s. The film follows three boys who grow to men who all play a role in the algiers fight for independence. They are all motivated by the opening scene, when they were little boys and their land was taken away ---- a very powerful scene, and the film has many of these, but overall the film is long, and it doesn't explain enough, nor give more historical background to what is happening so we as an audience could care more ---one big theme is that in order to get independence, the brothers have to do very violent, awful things --- kind of a hunger games theme, so quite relevant now. But because they kill so much, it is tough to remain liking them unto the bitter end --- and after awhile, there's just a lot of shooting and we don't care as much. So I'm in the middle on this one --- I can see why it got an award, but I don't recommend it to many people.





I gave it 3 out of 5 stars.
Outside the Law
Hors-la-loi
(2010) NR
Left without a home in their native land, three Algerian brothers (Jamel Debbouze, Roschdy Zem and Sami Bouajila) split from their mother and seek out strikingly dissimilar lives. But fate won't keep the siblings apart, eventually summoning them all to Paris for a reunion. Director Rachid Bouchareb's momentous drama -- set amid Algeria's post-World War II fight for independence from France -- earned an Oscar nod for Best Foreign Language Film.
Genre:Dramas, French Movies, French Dramas
This movie is:Controversial, Dark, Gritty