Paris, now. A pissed off French kid throws some rubbish into a beggar's
lap. A black teacher tells him to apologise. He refuses; it turns into a
scrap. The police arrive. The teacher gets arrested; the beggar gets
deported. Who's in the wrong? Where does it end? What does all the
day-to-day violence of living in a modern city do to you? Code Unknown
offers the most serious, searching interrogation of our times that
cinema has to offer; it's as important a film as Kieslowski's Three
Colours trilogy. Definitely not easy viewing, but as good as it gets
right now. See it - at least twice.
