Hey Cousin !
Synopsis
The country mouse, Alilo, arrives wide-eyed from Algiers to do a little business. The town mouse, his cousin Mok, French-born and Parisian to the core, is there to meet him. Alilo loses the address of the guy he is supposed to meet and they spend a frantic week trying to track down the suitcase which he absolutely has to take back to Algiers. During this enforced stay, Alilo's constant amazement reflects the stifling strictures of Algerian society, while Mok's endless survival tricks show up the extreme harshness of life in Paris. Alilo finds true love and misses his return flight, little knowing that Mok, his "pure French" cousin, has fallen foul of the law and been deported to Algeria.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (23)
Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producer : JBA Production
- Co-productions : Cléa Productions, La Sept Cinéma
- Foreign production companies : RTBF - Radio Télévision Belge de la Communauté Française, Samsa Film, Artémis Productions
- Film exports/foreign sales : Playtime
- French distribution : Films du Roseau
Full credits (22)
- Executive Producer : Jacques Bidou
- Screenwriter : Merzak Allouache
- Director of Photography : Pierre Aïm
- Music Composer : Safy Boutella
- Assistant directors : Pierre Abela, Tiffany Tavernier, Mohamed Ourdache
- Editor : Denise De Casabianca
- Sound Recordist : Philippe Sénéchal
- Costume designer : Anne Schotte
- Foreign producers : Patrick Quinet, Jani Thiltges, Jacqueline Pierreux
- Sound Assistant : Pascal Despres
- Assistant Operators : Jean-René Duveau, Marie Spencer, Johanne Debas
- Camera Operator : Georges Diane
- Production manager : Marianne Dumoulin
- Press Attaché (film) : François Hassan Guerrar
- Sound Editor : Michèle Boehm
- Assistant editor : Mireille Hannon
- Continuity supervisor : Cathy Mlakar
- Production Designer : Olivier Raoux
- Casting : Bruno Delahaye
- Sound mixers : Benoît Biral, Gérard Rousseau
- Still Photographer : Laurence Tremolet
- Unit Production Manager : Mathieu De Pasquale
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Comedy
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : France, Belgium, Algeria, Luxembourg
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
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News & awards
Selections (3)
Cairo - International Film Festival
Egypt, 1996
Out of Competition
About
"Hey, Cousin !" is perhaps (probably) a film on the margins of French cinema... Nevertheless, I shot it in Paris, in the eighteenth district. Something magical was present around me during the duration of the shoot (because of the neighbourhood ? the actors ? the crew ?...), something that reminded me of the atmosphere of Algiers. This non-exoticism... Perhaps that's why, in Holland, a journalist asked me if I had overdone the local colour in my film... Perhaps he meant the colours of the multicultural Paris that I love..."
(Merzak Allouache)
