Insecure

Insecure

2014 · 83 min · FR · 5.6 (25 votes)
Dir. Marianne Tardieu · Starring Reda Kateb, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Rashid Debbouze, Moussa Mansaly · Music Sayem
Drama

Chérif, struggling to pass the entrance exam for nursing school, takes on a side job as a security guard. On duty there, he faces off with a group of hostile teenagers who constantly harass him, and gradually ends up an accomplice to a robbery gone wrong. Caught in between two worlds, Chérif will have to find his own way out…

VIBE

This film feels like a stark, unflinching look at the pressures of poverty and the difficult choices it forces. It's a raw, grounded experience that pulls you into its protagonist's precarious situation, making you feel the weight of his decisions.

grittytensesomberrealisticsteadysocial realismcharacter-drivenunderstated dramaclasssurvivalmoralityopportunity
woman director
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