Les maisons de la misère5

Henri Storck’s militant short on Depression-era Belgium, set in Walloon slums on the outskirts of a prosperous city. Staged vignettes expose substandard housing, overcrowding, and numbed survival through claustrophobic, frame-filling images; a coda on slum clearance and “garden city” rehousing offers guarded hope.

LanguageFrench

GenresDocumentary, Drama

Related movies:

Pepe El Toro

You the Rich

Ray of Sunshine

The Little Prince's Rap Against The Wicked Souls

Land Without Bread

Megacities

Jerusalem

Poor Kids

Gisela

Curly Sue

Lake Paliastomi

Halifax Neighbourhood Center Project

Azhagu Kutti Chellam

Ghost Town to Havana

Rosetta

Angela's Ashes

One Man's War

Bellmouth

Biscut

Wendy and Lucy