Paris sera toujours Paris
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"Mon mari s'est converti à l'islam." |
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"Paris sera toujours Paris" is a sketch from the French film Slices of Life.
It is the story of a journalist who goes to the 20th arrondissement of Paris to do a portrait on the neighborhood. The sketch is sometimes used to illustrate the Great Replacement theory.
A journalist (Jean-Pierre Darroussin) enters an Arab grocery store and starts talking to a blonde Parisian woman (Josiane Balasko). She agrees to be interviewed and tells the interviewer she was born there, and her father too.
He remarks that she wears a kaftan, she says, "it's just a dress one finds in the neighborhood stores". He remarks that she is wearing a chador. She is again amazed. Ah it's very practical, it saves going to the hairdressers (or something to that effect).
They go outside. She calls for Mohammed. This appears to be her son. Whose name is actually Jean-Michel, but the son had insisted to change it into Mohammed.
He remarks that she speaks Arabic. She denies saying that it just the "argot from here." She appears not to know that it is Arabic.
She then remarks that her husband has converted to Islam. Before he had many problems as a foreman, near accidents for example. Now that he has converted, no more problems.
Once at the lady's home, they find the husband praying.
Then a couple comes for a visit. Both Westerners, they wear Chinese looking clothes since they live at Porte d'Italie. It appears that one of the Quartiers asiatiques de Paris is there.
Cast
- Josiane Balasko : La Parisienne
- Jean-Pierre Darroussin : Le journaliste
- Youssef Hamid
- Gérard Jugnot : Le beau-frère
- Lydia Ewande
