{"id":13942,"date":"2023-05-15T02:42:49","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T02:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?p=13942"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:29:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T23:29:24","slug":"the-worst-ones-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/the-worst-ones-2\/","title":{"rendered":"THE WORST ONES"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 data-wp-editing=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-13940\" src=\"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/worstones_poster_kl_2025x3000-scaled-236x350.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"386\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/worstones_poster_kl_2025x3000-scaled-236x350.jpg 236w, https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/worstones_poster_kl_2025x3000-scaled-826x1224.jpg 826w, https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/worstones_poster_kl_2025x3000-768x1138.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/worstones_poster_kl_2025x3000-scaled-600x888.jpg 600w, https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/worstones_poster_kl_2025x3000-scaled.jpg 1728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 386px) 100vw, 386px\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\">THE WORST ONES<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">| 2023 \u2013 99&#8242; \u2013\u00a0\u00a0Drama, Coming of age.<br \/>\nWritten by\u00a0Lise Akoka, Romane Gueret, \u00c9l\u00e9onore Gurrey.<br \/>\nDirected by\u00a0Lise Akoka, Romane Gueret.<br \/>\nStarring\u00a0Mallory Wanecque,\u00a0Tim\u00e9o Mahaut,\u00a0Johan Heldenbergh, Esther Archambault, Lo\u00efc Pech,\u00a0M\u00e9lina Vanderplancke, Ang\u00e9lique Gernez, Matthias Jacquin,\u00a0Dominique Frot.<br \/>\nOfficial Selection Cannes Film Festival 2022 (Un Certain\u00a0Regard &#8211; Grand Prize Winner), Toronto IFF. West Coast Premiere Premiere at <strong>The American French Film Festival<\/strong> (Best First Film Award winner).<br \/>\nIn French with English subtitles.<br \/>\nA Kino Lorber release.|<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">A group of astonishingly gifted newcomers turn in powerful performances in this first feature from former casting directors\u00a0Lise Akoka\u00a0and\u00a0Romane Gueret.\u00a0 Falling somewhere between an ethical critique on the long French tradition of casting non-professional street kids in\u00a0\u201cbanlieue\u201d\u00a0films, and an homage to that very genre,\u00a0The Worst Ones\u00a0uses a film-within-a-film structure to recount the story of a somewhat manipulative middle-aged Belgian director shooting a film in a housing project in northern France.\u00a0 While the director unapologetically purloins elements from the personal lives of his young cast, it\u2019s the nuance and emotional range of those very actors \u2014 clearly due to the talents of this film\u2019s directors \u2014 that catch us off guard and give the film its poignant punch.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/kinolorber.com\/film\/the-worst-ones\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH NOW<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE WORST ONES | 2023 \u2013 99&#8242; \u2013\u00a0\u00a0Drama, Coming of age. Written by\u00a0Lise Akoka, Romane Gueret, \u00c9l\u00e9onore Gurrey. Directed by\u00a0Lise Akoka, Romane Gueret. Starring\u00a0Mallory Wanecque,\u00a0Tim\u00e9o Mahaut,\u00a0Johan Heldenbergh, Esther Archambault, Lo\u00efc Pech,\u00a0M\u00e9lina Vanderplancke, Ang\u00e9lique Gernez, Matthias Jacquin,\u00a0Dominique Frot. Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2022 (Un Certain\u00a0Regard &#8211; Grand Prize Winner), Toronto IFF. West Coast Premiere Premiere [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,48,11,122,129,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tafff","category-coming-of-age","category-drama","category-films-about-cinema","category-tafff-awards-winners","category-women-directors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13942"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18029,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13942\/revisions\/18029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}