Presented in preview at BRIFF, The World after us is a generational fresco of our time. Labidi, a young broke author who arrived in Paris, seeks to write a novel and mixes the little postmodern jobs to get out. The artist combines disappointments and struggles to make ends meet to live in the capital and leave time for writing. A self-fiction form of the director, this feature film contrasts the merchant world with Art, at a time when tentacular capitalism has been rooted everywhere, to the heart of work and intimate relationships. How can we extract from the system or at least find the physical, temporal and psychic space to give meaning to creation? So many questions we exchanged with Louda Ben Salah-Cazanas during our Brussels interview.
« I'm a class bastard, a class defector, poor, pretending to live like the rich. I have the time that allows the most comfortable wages, but the urgency of the most modest. I have the hindrance and cynicism of one class over another, and the ambition of believers. I have a contemporary pain: this urgent vacuum in which we are falling. »
The World after usIt is also the story of a class defector, that of a poor person who pretends to live like the rich. Labidi is going to take a reckless risk to hatch her couple, even sometimes neglecting her original goal: giving birth to a novel. The characters evolve throughout the film with accuracy. By offering a film at the heart of the Parisian bourgeoisie, Louda Ben Salah is in line with those who denounce how artificial and untenable life has become in the big urban centres, where property rights are never called into question, even if they leave the rents untiringly close to the peaks. To this harshness of modern life and of broken work, between disguised self-entrepreneurship and misguided employment contracts, the little ones seek to make a way for themselves and tinker to survive.
The director outlines the aberration of uberized work and that of the novlanguage managerial if « friendly », which makes up the pain inherent in work. « You have to show us that the brand is your family. » explains to him his manager of the window shop where the young artist works for a time. The agents of the press houses are no more flexible and care exclusively for profit. Obsessed with money and the only search for mercantile satisfaction, these intermediaries are all obstacles to the success of the writer. The latter, unworked, will even manage to watch self-persuasion videos on Youtube with tutos to become rich and other scams that adorn the desperate. « When I write, I speak to myself. I understand what's wrong, what I'm doing wrong. » claims Labidi during a moment of vision. An introspective and liberatory literary approach to light years of what his potential publisher is waiting for, which has put him an ultimatum to write like any good provider.
Louda Ben Salah-Cazanas 33 years old. He studied at Sciences-Po and by chance met the screenwriter Gilles Marchand who trained and learned the realization. His first feature film, The World after us, is selected at Panorama de la Berlinale 2021. Like Louda's experience, The world after us illustrates the class issues that drive social success. The film is expected in theatre on February 2, 2022 in France.
« In life, there will be choices you don't choose. Are these the choices that will choose you? »
Can individuals, by their will, overcome social determinisms and situations? Despite Labidi's troubles, some friendship scenes in the colocation of a maid's room are touching and most of the time plunged into darkness, symbol of poverty. Labidi, son of immigrant artist and deliverer Deliveroo at the beginning naive, will find his place gradually in this hypocritical world. However, Louda Ben Salah grew in human relations. Funny, if not romantic volunteers in his approach, what if the outcome was brought by love and sharing? Release to the hall this winter. Until then, the deliverers of the company Delivroo – currently in the grip of justice for hidden work – Will they have a work contract worthy of that name?
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Interview with Louda Ben Salah Cazanas
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