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Somewhere in Paris's 15th arrondissement, a family with seven children lives in one room.

 

 

 
 
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"A nation of builders with a record number of slums."

France Soir 1955

"A young film-maker produces an earth-shattering documentary about the housing crisis."
République du Centre 1957

"When the bricks themselves start to cry out!"
Le Monde Ouvrier

 

     Hurry to see this accursed short which no French distributor has dared take on so as not to ruffle the feathers of even the most petty government official in his circle. For this public health film is about the insalubrious conditions in which a good half of the French population actually live.
Never before has a document been as officially subversive: the commentary is taken from excerpts from the Official Gazette.
This powerful plea by the young film-maker Dewever is a credit to French cinema! This overwhelming film won the Prix Lumière, and rightly so.
Jeander
le Canard Enchainé 1957

 

     "Jean Dewever attacks and leaves the viewer's conscience somewhat gasping for breath. I can tell him, if he doesn't already know, that a fairly important political figure took offence at his film and was flabbergasted that it hadn't been banned. That's most definitely a recommendation, because it can be translated by a single word: touché!
'La crise du logement' doesn't play on sentimentality, it is a hard-hitting plea (...)
Dewever's film is shocking because it lays the leper bare.
And then, again, because as a fully-fledged satirical tract, after pointing the finger at those responsible, or, more accurately, pointing out the threat with a few awful faces, awful because they are simply captured in a queue. This might translate as: 'Here are the people who'll be out to get you, if you fail to understand'. You can understand why some of those responsible would get goosebumps and shriek, as they've already been skinned alive."
R.M. Arlaud.
Combat 1957

 


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Ingen tor vise Filmen om Paris ' Vrangsider
Fotografen var i Livsfare, da han ville paa Steppen i Nanterre - det arasbiske Slumkvarter.

Paula Biche
Jyllands-Posten
Hollande 1957

Nom sempre o cinema é um negócio de coragem

O Seculo
Lisbonne 1959


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IS PARIS BURNING ? "    " PARIS BRULE-T-IL ? "
"OR I'LL DRESS YOU IN MOURNING "  "OU TU PORTERAS MON DEUIL"
" O JERUSALEM " " O JERUSALEM"
"FREEDOM AT MIDNIGHT
" "CETTE NUIT LA LIBERTE"

DOMINIQUE LA PIERRE LARRY COLLINS

Wednesday, 16 August 1978

The Manager
Cinéma Elysées-Lincoln
14, rue Lincoln
75008 Paris

Dear Sir,

I am a longstanding Elysées-Lincoln filmgoer and have on many occasions been highly appreciative of your excellent programmes. I am delighted to have seen only recently that vintage Hitchcock film, "Young and Innocent".
I feel compelled, however, to draw your attention to the entirely shameful short which you feature together with the Hitchcock film, entitled "La crise du logement en France". It is indeed an utter scandal that in 1978 in a theatre packed with foreign tourists, a film be shown that gives an image of France that even its worst detractors would dare not show. (...)
I would therefore ask you, for pity's sake, to withdraw this filler from your programme. There must surely be some inexpensive short feature about an old château, an abbey, or a village in our beautiful country that would be worthier of being shown throughout the month of August to Parisians and to our foreign friends.
Thank you in advance.
Yours sincerely,

Dominique Lapierre


In a courtyard in the Rue des Amandiers (20th arrondissement, Paris), one WC for a hundred homes


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