2001 ‘Yamakasi - Les samouraïs des temps modernes’ Directed by Ariel Zeitoun, Julien Seri
Yamakasi - Les samouraïs des temps modernes is a 2001 French movie written by Luc Besson. It demonstrates the skills of the Yamakasi, a group of traceurs who battle against injustice in the Paris ghetto. They use parkour to steal from the rich in order to pay off medical bills for a kid injured copying their techniques.
Yann Hervé Yohann Costedoat Stéphanie Gaurier Claude-France Husson Célia Lafitedupont Christine Lucas Navarro Charlotte Rembauville
Yamakasi - Die Samurai der Moderne, Ямакаси, Ямакаси - новые самураи, Yamakasi - Storbyens samuraikrigere
this movie from 2001 is better at explaining racism and police brutality than any other french movie after that. i swear to god french movies keep getting worse and worse
You will garner no sense of any actual parkour going on in this movie, even though there probably was. Probably. Maybe. Who knows? It’s all been left on the cutting room floor, butchered in the editing room. How the performers themselves could stomach it (and film a sequel in 2004!) is beyond me. If it was my work, my risks, my ART being sliced apart into a crude parody I would be FURIOUS.
Of course the French know how to make a parkour movie...
I feel like this parkour shit is the pinnacle of practical chase stunts. Just some sweaty guys running and jumping, not needing any cars or explosions to make things look cool.
Pues la historia es solo el pretexto para ver a estos chavos haciendo parkour. Pero que padre se ve el parkour por la ciudad de París.
Obviamente esta interesante y entretenida, aunque se vuelve lenta en la escenas dramáticas.
Une belle histoire qui décrit les discriminations et dérives de la Société,même au niveau de l'accès à la santé !
De l'action, de la bonne musique !
Courage Jamel !
This film popularized parkour. The plot is only a pretext for action scenese. But because it's the first in the genre, these scenes are a bit outdated.
66/100
20 лет прошло, но история всё ещё актуальная. Правда Ямакаси смотрят не ради истории про расизм и полицию, а ради паркура, и с этим у фильма весьма прохладно.
Задумано вроде круто, но реализовано дилетантски. Особенно это касается саундтрека, который совершенно не попал ни в одну экшн сцену.
Bin eher aus Zufall auf diesen Film gestoßen weil ich etwas über David Belle gesucht habe.
An sich kein schlechter Film und ich mag eigentlich französische Filme wie z.B. Taxi oder ähnliches. Doch ganz begeistern konnte er mich leider nicht.
The final of the three films my French teacher would alternate between when putting on a movie at the end of a term. Oddly quite wholesome, quite cliche in a lot of scenes and definitely isn't anything especially new or inherently special, but I did enjoy seeing it because it does try to play on simply allowing people to come together and be friends irregardless of status or race or whatever... to do parkour. It's cheesy and cliche and kinda ridiculous but it's not the worst thing I've ever seen.
