Alimentation Générale
Release Date:
May 18, 2005
Runtime:
1h 24m
Genres:
Documentary
In Epinay-sur-Seine, in the neighborhood called « la Source », Aliâs grocery store is the only shop still in business of the decayed shopping center. Itâs 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 âaround the cornerâ, in the middle of the Projects, where in spite of difficulties and poverty, people still share user-friendliness, laughter, human warmth.
