District B13 (Banlieue 13) - Foreign Film Review
District B13 (Banlieue 13)
Synopsis: It is the year 2010.
In this dystopic vision of the future, certain slums just outside of Paris
have been walled off and isolated due to their "high risk" status....
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District B13 (Banlieue 13) - Foreign Film Review
District B13 (Banlieue 13)
Synopsis: It is the year 2010.
In this dystopic vision of the future, certain slums just outside of Paris
have been walled off and isolated due to their "high risk" status.
Infested with drugs, rampant crime, and bad hairstyles, one particularly troublesome area called
District B13 is reminiscent of the island of Manhattan from John Carpenter s Escape From New York,
only more French (and possibly with better food).
Leïto (David Belle) is a well-meaning punk who s in trouble with Taha (Bibi Naceri), District B13 s
tyrant drug kingpin.
After stealing and then destroying a large stash of Taha s dope, Leïto escapes the
drug lord s armed goons in a brilliant building-to-building chase scene that has to be seen rather than
described.
In this sequence, David Belle, who s a stuntman in real life, exhibits the art of Parkour (aka Free
Running).
Parkour is a sport invented by Belle himself, in which the practitione
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