Saïd Taghmaoui is a Actor American born on 19 july 1973 at Villepinte (France)
Saïd Taghmaoui
Saïd Taghmaoui participated to
43 films (as actor, director or script writer).
Among those,
1 have good markets following the box office.
Here are the best films classified by number of entries :
Actor
, 1h38
Directed by Mathieu KassovitzOrigin FranceGenres Drama,
Comedy-dramaThemes La banlieue française,
Dance films,
Films about music and musicians,
Films about racism,
Hip hop films,
Gangster filmsActors Vincent Cassel,
Hubert Koundé,
Saïd Taghmaoui,
Mathieu Kassovitz,
Benoît Magimel,
Omar SyRoles Saïd
Rating80%
The film depicts approximately 19 consecutive hours in the lives of three friends in their early twenties from immigrant families living in an impoverished multi-ethnic French housing project (a ZUP – zone d'urbanisation prioritaire) in the suburbs of Paris, in the aftermath of a riot. Vinz (Vincent Cassel), who is Jewish, is filled with rage. He sees himself as a gangster ready to win respect by killing a cop, manically practising the role of Travis Bickle from the film Taxi Driver in the mirror secretly. His attitude towards police, for instance, is a simplified, stylized blanket condemnation, even to individual policemen who make an effort to steer the trio clear of troublesome situations. Hubert (Hubert Koundé) is an Afro-French boxer and small time drug dealer, the most mature of the three, whose gymnasium was burned in the riots. The quietest, most thoughtful and wisest of the three, he sadly contemplates the ghetto and the hate around him. He expresses the wish to simply leave this world of violence and hate behind him, but does not know how since he lacks the means to do so. Saïd – Sayid in some English subtitles – (Saïd Taghmaoui) is an Arab Maghrebi who inhabits the middle ground between his two friends' responses to their place in life.