“The police have a free pass to kill Blacks and Arabs,” the French filmmaker told the Toronto Film Festival as his follow-up to ‘Les Misérables’ has a world premiere.
“The problems that touched the suburbs have now extended to the rest of France,” Ly added, as he pointed to the police crackdown of Yellow Vests protests countrywide against economic injustice, which included grassroots protests earlier this year against pension reforms.
“The police have a free pass to kill Blacks and Arabs,” Ly argued, sounding an alarm. “The government doesn’t seem to have control of the police forces anymore.” The issue of angry Parisian suburbs dates back to Mathieu Kassovitz’sin 1995, among other French dramas that, like Ly’s, shine a global spotlight on injustice and inequities in the French capital.
Ly said over a 25-year career in filmmaking he has taken inspiration from the Parisian neighborhood he grew up in, which has faced drug and AIDS epidemics and a crisis over expensive housing and other living costs. As a teenager, Ly and friends picked up cameras to begin to chronicle their homes and communities. In 2010, as he began to document the actions of local police, he was able to capture on film a young man in handcuffs being beaten as he was arrested.He published the footage, which provoked a media storm and the eventual firing of police officers.
By now, under the constant eye of the local police, the French filmmaker had made documentaries that chronicled his local community, including one short film,that continued his scrutiny of local police brutality and received only minimal distribution online.Les Misérables,
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