At 17 years old, François Ozon was so inspired by a book named “Dance on My Grave” that he decided it would be his first film as an aspiring director. Now, 35 years on, he’s transposed this English teen romance to France and the heady “Summer of 1985”. Film critic Lisa Nesselson tells us why she was charmed by Ozon’s take on this same-sex love affair. We also check out an impressive and strange début from Algerian director Amin Sidi-Boumedine: “Abou Leila” revisits the dark days of Algeria’s civil war and blends Western codes with metaphysical visions.
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In This Story: Algeria
Algeria, officially the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. The capital and most populous city is Algiers, located in the far north of the country on the Mediterranean coast. With an area of 2,381,741 square kilometres (919,595 sq mi), Algeria is the tenth-largest country in the world, and the largest by area in the African Union and the Arab world. With an estimated population of over 44 million, it is the eighth-most populous country in Africa.
Algeria is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia, to the east by Libya, to the southeast by Niger, to the southwest by Mali, Mauritania, and the Western Saharan territory, to the west by Morocco, and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea. The country has a semi-arid geography, with most of the population living in the fertile north and the Sahara dominating the geography of the south. This arid geography makes the country very vulnerable to climate change.
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