Si j'existe, je ne suis pas un autre

Hocine, David, Seta, Sofian, all aged about twenty, are taking lessons in an unusual class in the Paris suburb of Bondy in order to reintegrate a standard sixth form class. Bodybuilding, arithmetic or set-making for a play they will put on — the flexible teaching methods enable the filmmakers, all ears, to record the young students’ language as they reply or talk among themselves about their activities. At times, the spontaneity of these "social cases", as they call themselves, veers towards a form of psittacism. On stage, who speaks, who is spoken? Where does self-expression end, where does recitation begin? The school play offers the film a framework: certainly not the dramaturgy of a feel-good movie (a problem class is managing to do art, what an exploit!), but a formal homology.
This film exists in 55 minute's version under the title Class Scenes.