While thousands of tourists invade the beaches, camping grounds and clubs, five teenagers from Porto Vecchio hang out. One evening one of them leads the others to an unoccupied luxury villa. They spend the night there. Before they leave, they steal some objects of no value and two prize rifles. When the house owner arrives from Paris, she complains about the theft to a small local boss she knows…
Direction
De Peretti's documentary-like patience lets dread creep in slow
Cinematography
Corsican landscapes so gorgeous they mock the characters' emptiness
Director
Thierry de Peretti
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in Porto-Vecchio with local non-professional actors, many playing versions of themselves. The director grew up there and wanted to capture the strange hostility between wealthy seasonal tourists and year-round Corsican youth.
The title references both the famous Parisian street gang and the casual, almost playful violence of the teens — de Peretti deliberately blurs whether they're victims of circumstance or architects of their own destruction.
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