{"id":24483,"date":"2023-01-16T09:45:58","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T07:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/?p=24483"},"modified":"2023-01-20T18:02:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T16:02:01","slug":"the-story-of-youssef-salem-nominated-for-the-goncourt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/the-story-of-youssef-salem-nominated-for-the-goncourt\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story of Youssef Salem, Nominated for the Goncourt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A comedy that reflects on Algerian culture, family ties, immigration, lies and literature, <em>Youssef Salem a du succ\u00e8s<\/em>, directed by Baya Kasmi, will be released in France on January 18, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>La\u00ebtitia Soula<\/h4>\n<p>\u201cYoussef Salem has always managed to fall short in his writing career, but the trouble begins when his new novel meets with success, for this time, Youssef took inspiration from his intimates, for better and especially for worse. He must now at all costs make sure his book doesn\u2019t fall into the hands of his family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Such is the pitch for the new French comedy <em>Youssef Salem \u00e0 du succ\u00e8s<\/em> (Youssef Salem Gets Ahead), directed by the talented Baya Kasmi. A prolific screenwriter and winner of a C\u00e9sar Best Original Screenplay Award for the Michel LeClerc film <em>Le nom des gens<\/em> (<em>The Names of Love<\/em>, 2011), Kasmi directs <em>Youssef Salem <\/em>with ingenuity and flair, and is aided in her efforts by an inspired ensemble cast.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YOUSSEF SALEM A DU SUCC\u00c8S Bande Annonce (2023)\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sNag6PtAdoQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Youssef Salem, played by Ramzy Bedia, forms an endearing duo with Lise, his editor (No\u00e9mie Lvovsky). Distraught by the unexpected success of his novel <em>Le choc toxique<\/em>, in which he depicts the failings of his family in a thinly veiled way, he will do anything to prevent his parents from reading it. \u201cWhen a writer is born into a family, the family is finished,\u201d pronounced the late Philip Roth: this is one of the starting points of the film, which depicts the incredible adventure of a son of Algerian immigrants in France \u2014 a writer who, against all odds, is shortlisted for the Goncourt, France\u2019s most coveted literary honor.<\/p>\n<p>What should be an anointment, however, becomes a conflict for the author who, at the age of 45, lives a lie in order to spare his parents embarrassment. He has them believe, for example, that he still lives with his partner, whereas they separated two years earlier; and he makes his father, a French-language enthusiast, reread texts that he purposely fills with mistakes so that he can correct them. In the same way, his lesbian sister convinces her parents that her companion is her roommate.<\/p>\n<p>Among the brilliant gallery of characters and the actors who play them we should mention Youssef\u2019s sister Lise, incarnated by Melha Bedia (Ramzy Bedia&#8217;s sister in real life); Youssef\u2019s parents, played by Abbes Zahmani and Tassadit Mandi; and the delightful Vimala Pons as L\u00e9na, Youssef\u2019s romantic partner.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Family loyalty and clich\u00e9s<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Outwardly a comedy, the film nonetheless provides rich reflection on the serious matter of family ties. The director pushes the conflict of family loyalty to its limit, at which point it combusts. Family drama is a comic fount that benefits from the many clich\u00e9s around Algerian culture, as the Salem family plays with societal injunctions and norms \u2014 such as being heterosexual, hardworking and honest, and having children.<\/p>\n<p>The film deals powerfully with the unspoken and with taboos around sexuality. In fact the \u201ctoxic shock\u201d that gives birth to the plot is none other than the sin of having had a sexual relationship before marriage \u2014 premarital sex can and has often resulted in the death of the lovers. There is the terrible shame of desires and impulses, or \u201cchouma\u201d \u00a0\u2014 a deep shame that many children feel when adults do not give us words to explain certain phenomena, whether masturbation, transvestism or homosexual attraction with which we are connected in one way or another. An unspeakable shame surrounds these unspoken feelings or behaviors, which we hide like a heavy secret. According to Kasmi, by dealing with taboos, the film shows \u201chow sometimes lying is a form of freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nDo not disappoint your parents<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Honor can also be sullied by disappointing one&#8217;s parents, who worked so hard to rebuild their native Algeria after its war of independence against France, and who then moved to France itself, the colonizer that became a host country, where they and other immigrants had to accept exploitation and bend over backwards to succeed.<\/p>\n<p>The film doesn&#8217;t pull its punches. In France, even today, Algerian immigrants and their descendants hear phrases like \u201call Arabs are thieves.\u201d One of the film&#8217;s strengths is that it provides a comical counterpoint to the theme of racism with an absolutely delightful clash of generations, showing how matters of integration in France are experienced differently by members of the same family. At times overwhelmed by 21<sup>st<\/sup> century demands, Youssef\u2019s parents continue to glorify a past full of heroes that society has no use for; they are Algerians raised in prudery who find themselves in a society that has legalized gay marriage. Overwhelmed, too, are the children, who try to protect their parents from this generational clash, and this is one of the film&#8217;s most successful comic devices.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sNag6PtAdoQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24484\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/YOUSSEF-SALEM-A-DU-SUCCES_AFFICHE.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"734\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/YOUSSEF-SALEM-A-DU-SUCCES_AFFICHE.jpg 734w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/YOUSSEF-SALEM-A-DU-SUCCES_AFFICHE-600x817.jpg 600w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/YOUSSEF-SALEM-A-DU-SUCCES_AFFICHE-220x300.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 734px) 100vw, 734px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nWhat it means to be Arab<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Among the film&#8217;s attractions are its brilliant soundtrack, which features artists of Mediterranean origin such as the Franco-Lebanese Bachar Mar-Khalif\u00e9, son of the great singer and oud player Marcel Khalif\u00e9, and Alexandre Saada, a French musician and film music composer whose parents are from Tunisia and Algeria. The family of the hero is based in Marseille, and the film perfectly illustrates the multicultural and mixed dimension of this city, which grew around a port that has welcomed successive waves of immigration. Kasmi chooses to set the legend of the toxic shock in the magical setting of Les Goudes, facing the island of Ma\u00efre, in the heart of the calanques. In this mineral universe, arid and steep, populated with rocks, scrubland and pine forests, we find ourselves in a landscape that could easily be mistaken for the Algerian coast.<\/p>\n<p>There is an intentional discrepancy between the hero&#8217;s Parisian life, encapsulated by the glitz of Chez Drouant, and the scruff of the Marseilles slums. There is also a counterpoint between Paris and the provinces, between the language spoken in the capital and the sing-song variant of the south, not to mention a nuanced reflection on identity and the plurality of Arabness.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24493\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24493\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24493\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Youssef-and-his-editor-played-by-Noemie-Lvovsky.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Youssef-and-his-editor-played-by-Noemie-Lvovsky.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Youssef-and-his-editor-played-by-Noemie-Lvovsky-600x251.jpg 600w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Youssef-and-his-editor-played-by-Noemie-Lvovsky-300x125.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Youssef-and-his-editor-played-by-Noemie-Lvovsky-768x321.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24493\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ramzy Bedia as author Youssef Salem, with No\u00e9mie Lvovsky as his editor, Lise.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nLiterature and the writing profession<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We learn in <em>Youssef Salem<\/em> that it is sometimes better not to transgress taboos, that the unspoken can remain in the shadows, and that we\u2019re better off when it does. This is a film full of winks; among other things, it mocks the French television world and reality TV, and features personalities who play themselves, such as journalist and literary critic Augustin Trapenard.<\/p>\n<p>This marks Bedia\u2019s third time working with Kasmi, who was born into an Algerian immigrant family in Toulouse. We saw Bedia previously in <em>I&#8217;m Yours Right Now<\/em> in 2015, and <em>Class Struggle<\/em> in 2019. The combination of their talents hits the mark. With <em>Youssef Salem<\/em>, Kasmi even claims to have written the character for him. Underneath the comedy and the gags, we are also treated to a reflection on literature and what it can say in terms of the writer\u2019s craft, and the sometimes perilous exercise of autobiography.<\/p>\n<p><em>Youssef Salem<\/em> uses lies to make the truth more obvious. If the protagonist disguises reality through his words, it is to better bring it out into the open, so that we can see it as it really is. To serve this process, a beautiful <em>mise en abyme<\/em> between literature and reality is constructed throughout the narrative. Here nothing is true, but at the same time, everything is. As Kasmi says, \u201cThe truths of some are not the truths of others,\u201d hence the difficulty of producing an autobiographical narrative that the author alone can own.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La\u00ebtitia Soula reviews the acidic new comedy from Baya Kasmi, which plays on the Rothian theme of intimate family 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