Release Date

18 May, 2005

Runtime

01:24: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

In Epinay-sur-Seine, in the neighborhood called « la Source », Ali’s grocery store is the only shop still in business of the decayed shopping center. It’s also the only place left for the forsaken inhabitants of the surrounding tower blocks to meet, a shelter where they can get together and exchange. This documentary film takes us into the everyday life of a small grocery store. As customers pass by, Ali, the charismatic shopkeeper, also part-time singer, is benevolently welcoming them. This moving and often amusing chronicle shows the importance of such a place, a small shop “around the corner”, in the middle of the Projects, where in spite of difficulties and poverty, people still share user-friendliness, laughter, human warmth.

Original Title

Alimentation Générale

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Actors

Crew

Chantal Briet

Chantal Briet

Sophie Bachelier

Martin Wheeler

Benoît Alavoine

Chantal Briet

Diane Baratier

Dominique Renauld

Nathalie Charles

Pascale Chavance

Ludovic Arnal

Sylvia Calle