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155 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2001
C'est l'histoire d'un homme qui tombe d'un building de cinquante étages. À chaque étage, au fur et à mesure de sa chute, il se répète pour sans cesse se rassurer: "Jusqu'ici tout va bien, jusqu'ici tout va bien, jusqu'ici tout va bien..."
I was supposed to read this during my last year of french at school 8 years ago. Sadly I did not have any interest in it at all back then. (We even watched the movie during class! So props to my former french teacher, I'm sorry I didn't appreciate this gem back then)
In the course of watching french movies like "Irreversible", "Les Misérables" (from 2019) or "Enter The Void", one of the next movies in line to (re-)watch had to be "La Haine". So I found my old, battered and stained copy of the La Haine Scénario and the first line (the one at the top of the review) got me so hooked that I wanted to make it trough the book this time.
It wasn't easy at first, as my last french lesson lies, as already mentioned, 8 years back. Luckily with each page I managed to retrieve some of the knowledge buried in the depths of my brain.
I honestly didn't think I would ever read a french book again, but this was so good! Mostly because this storyline is so exciting, the characters are so authentic and the scenes are so picturesque.
So excited to finally re-watch the movie!