Au nom de l’urgence

Taking as its subject the situation in Marseilles, the film analyses the long-term sociological consequences of urban planning policies: soulless suburbs where the concentration of immigrants populations and their living conditions exude a state of uneasiness and deliquency. “Between 1945 and 1975, in response to the housing crisis, Marseilles like many other towns, put up large housing complexes, temporary estates for transit or emergency situations. In counterpoint to the official story found in the archives, the film evokes and shares the questions and hopes of those who, for a time, believed that they could resist the building machine gone crazy.” (Alain Dufau)