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Hassan Ben Jalloun - Writer and Director
"I'd been interested in the story of the film Le bar for a long time because in my previous film La chambre noire I'd looked at the 1970s, and I wanted to go back one decade.
There were many subjects set in the 1960s but the one that interested me most was the great wave of emigration to Israel by Moroccan Jews.
I wrote the script because I lived through that period. I was born in Settat and where I lived there were ten families, five Jewish and five Moroccan.
We all lived and had fun together. Then from one day to the next five families left. The children left with them, the friends I played with, and I asked my parents where they had all gone. They told me that they'd gone to Palestine - and that was the first time I heard anyone mention Palestine.
Of course we had to find people who look like Moroccan Jews, with the right accent.
There's a different approach in the writing of this film, there is singing and dancing, because not all films are alike, every film is unique." |
