The Magnetd
Synopsis
Before being a movie,Ccomme un aimant was an emblematic tittle from an IAM album called " Ombre et lumièr "e released in 1993. The story is about a group of friends in their thirties living in Marseille in a neighbourhood called Le Panier. They have quite a happy life mande of parties, deals, sun and leasiness, but the fate of their district will overtake them. Just in a few days during summertime these carefree young people will be pushed into an nnounced tragedy.
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Actors (9)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producers : Why Not Productions, Eskwad
- Co-production : STUDIOCANAL
- Film exports/foreign sales : Tamasa Distribution
- French distribution : Mars Distribution
Full credits (14)
- Executive Producers : Richard Grandpierre, Pascal Caucheteux
- Screenwriter : Kamel Saleh
- Director of Photography : Denis Rouden
- Music Composers : Bruno Coulais, Akhenaton
- Assistant directors : Antonin Dedet, Rafaele Ravinet-Virbel
- Editor : Fabrice Salinie
- Sound Recordist : Laurent Lafran
- Assistant Operator : Vincent Buron
- Production Manager : Richard Grandpierre
- Press Attachés (film) : Laurence Granec, Karine Ménard
- Sound editor : Bridget O'Driscoll
- Casting : Coralie Amédéo
- French Distributor : Stéphane Célérier
- Sound Mixer : Bruno Tarrière
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Yes
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The fate of these characters is inevitably tragic. We wanted to show the generation of people just ahead of us, people who are now fifty or sixty years old. When I was eleven or twelve, I hung around those guys; they were the same age I am today, but now most of them are dead, some have vanished, and others are doing 30-year stretches in prison. Those are the people we wanted to show.
In a housing project, there aren’t many possibilities: either you get out and manage to make something of your life, or else – for most people I know – you wind up in prison, dead of an overdose, or insane. Those are the kinds of characters we wanted to write about.
Kamel Saleh and Akhenaton, Directors
