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Paris, Belleville: one last Café Musette. Charming, enchanting, idiosyncratic, like the six characters whose paths cross here. True poetry and popular chanson. Unyielding, unstoppable, timeless. French history that challenges and resists. Using a street corner, the film portrays a neighborhood that has become a home for strangers. Shaped by the migrations of the last centuries, by the trades and by the riots, Belleville sings us his songs of love and struggle. Black and white photography. Pictures like a chanson.
Belleville belle et rebelle portrays six extraordinary residents of Belleville, the quintessential Parisian immigrant neighborhood. The regular guests of VIEUX BELLEVILLE – charming and extravagant – bring the film together as in the French film: Joseph, owner of a café and reporter; Minelle, singer and accordionist with a contagious energy; Robert Bober, assistant director, writer, photographer and director of Truffaut. Riton la Manivelle, baritone and accordion; Steven, Scottish bistro and mural painter. And Lucio Urtubia, bricklayer, Basque and anarchist, check forger wanted by Interpol, who now manages the ESPACE LOUISE MICHEL cultural center.
LE VIEUX BELLEVILLE is an authentique lieu, which has fallen out of fashion and time. Deeply rooted in the French soul, this culture attracts curious minds from all over the world to sing songs by Fréhel, Piaf and Gainsbourg, dance and share the ever-modern idea of brotherhood. These songs represent the sediment of life, an essence that tells of revolution, revolt, world wars, May 1968, love and passion. But what makes a good chanson? Jeanne Moreau: “Energy. It is an immediate sensation, like a jolt. The idea must meet a feeling “.
Belleville belle et rebelle, another jewel by director Daniela Abke, tells a hidden side of France. La France caché, beyond the yellow vests, where society holds its core together.
