Akaboum observe la jeunesse et ses seuils. Celui de l'adolescence qui s'achève, et ceux, géographiques, qui séparent la banlieue parisienne d'un territoire imaginaire où s'extasient les avatars fantasmées de soi. Tandis que les jeunes cherchent une rave party entre les tours de bétons d'une utopie gouvernementale et le royaume en plastique de Disneyland, le film soulève des questions brûlantes relatives à l'identité, l'héritage colonial, l'exclusion et l'hybridation culturelle.
In the Parisian suburbs, a group of adolescents wander, looking for a rave party. The city’s peripheral architecture goes by like the setting of a retro futuristic adventure gone wrong; the governmental utopia of the housing estates, the laminated dream of the Euro Disney Park, the playgrounds and sports areas now used as spaces for getting high. The Parisian suburbs are thus revealed like the theatre of a failed political project, which has only intensified the differences between the deprived neighbourhoods and the city centre. However, the youth filmed by Manon Vila is not defeated.
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