“The Best” tonight on Culturebox: should you see this first film with Lina El Arabi and Esther Rollande?

Filming secrets, anecdotes: did you know?

• The Best are the first feature film from the author-director Marion Desseigne Ravelwho notably collaborated on the film’s screenplay The Land of Men (2020).
• In the press kit, the director returned to the genesis : “When I arrived in Paris to do FEMIS, I found an apartment in the Goutte-d’Or district. Downstairs from my house was an association that provided academic support and I immediately wanted to go and see it, to meet these young people. I found myself volunteering for homework help and some Saturdays we shot short films as part of a film workshop. It was the time of Marriage for all. We were talking about it everywhere (…) [et] The teenagers from the association arrived one day with very virulent leaflets and took me to task on the issue of homosexuality. I was in a relationship with a woman and I told them. It opened up a space for dialogue between us. Their questions shook me and upset me. All this gave rise to the idea of Best and the desire to tell a love story between two young Maghrebi women in a working-class neighborhood.”
• The Best received the Gan Foundation Creation Award in 2019 for his screenplay.

Realization : Marion Desseigne Ravel
Scenario : Marion Desseigne Ravel
Casting : Lina El Arabi, Esther Rollande, Kiyane Benamara, Mahia Zrouki, Tasnim Jamlaoui, Azize Diabaté, Mariama Gueye, Laetitia Kerfa, Fadila Bouanati
Image : Lucile Mercier
Son : Remi Daru, Jean Goudier, Jean-Paul Hurier
Decorations: Clemence Petiniaud
Costumes : Constance Allain
Montage : Julie Picouleau, Elif Uluengin
Musique : Roman Kronenberg
Production : June 31 Films, Tripode Productions, France 2 Cinema, The Pact
Release date France: 02/03/2021
Distribution France : The Pact