''Comme un aimant'' (released in the USA as ''The Magnet'') is a 2000 French film by Kamel Saleh and

Akhenaton Akhenaten (pronounced ), also spelled Echnaton, Akhenaton, ( egy, ꜣḫ-n-jtn ''ʾŪḫə-nə-yātəy'', , meaning "Effective for the Aten"), was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh reigning or 1351–1334 BC, the tenth ruler of the Eighteenth Dy ...

. It depicts eight young people living in the district of Panier, in

Marseille Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Fran ...

. The film's title means 'like a magnet', and is a reference to a line in the film accusing two characters of being lazy and 'sitting there with your asses stuck to that bench like a magnet'.

Cast

as Sauveur * Kamel Saleh as Cahouètte *

Brahim Aimad Brahim is a shorter form of Ibrahim, the Arabic name for Abraham. It may refer to: * Brahim (given name) * Brahim (surname) * Brahim (Pashtun tribe), a tribe in Afghanistan *Stage name of Brahim Attaeb, Belgian-Moroccan singer *Stage name of Brahi ...

as Bra-Bra *

Freeman Freeman, free men, or variant, may refer to: * a member of the Third Estate in medieval society (commoners), see estates of the realm * Freeman, an apprentice who has been granted freedom of the company, was a rank within Livery companies * Free ...

as Kakou *

Houari Djerir Houari is a given name and surname. It may refer to: Persons Given name * Houari Boumédiène, also transcribed Boumediene, Boumedienne etc. (1932–1978), served as Chairman of the Revolutionary Council of Algeria from 19 June 1965 until 12 Decemb ...

as Houari *

Kamel Ferrat Kamel ( ar, كامل }) is a given name meaning ''perfect'' or ''the perfect one''. It may refer to: People with the given name Kamel * Abdullah Kamel Abdullah Kamel Al Kandari (born 1973), Kuwaiti extrajudicial prisoner of the United States * ...

as Fouad * Titoff as Santino * Sofiane Madjid Mammeri as Christian *

Khalil Mohamed Khalil, Khelil, or Khaleel may refer to: People * Khalil (Pashtun tribe) * Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931), Lebanese-American writer, poet, visual artist, and Lebanese nationalist * Khalil (scholar), 19th century Islamic scholar in the Emirate of ...

as Kader *

Virginie Gallo ''Virginie'' was a French-language Television in Canada, Canadian television series that aired Monday through Thursday on Télévision de Radio-Canada, Radio-Canada (the French-language CBC Television, CBC television network). It debuted in 1996 ...

as Nathalie *

Nadège Mignien Nadège is a French feminine given name. List of people with the given name * Nadège Lacroix (born 1986), Swiss actress, television personality. * Nadège August, American actress, producer, and podcast host * Nadège Vanhee-Cybulski, French f ...

as Béatrice * Bérangère Topart as Sylvie *

Ahamed Abdou Ahamed is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *E. Ahamed, Indian politician *Emajuddin Ahamed (1933–2020), Bangladeshi academic *Liaquat Ahamed, American writer *M.C. Ahamed (died 2008), Sri Lankan politician *Mohammed Ahamed (bor ...

as Jackson

Soundtrack

The film's soundtrack is written by

Mario Castiglia is a character created by Japanese video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto. He is the title character of the ''Mario'' franchise and the mascot of Japanese video game company Nintendo. Mario has appeared in over 200 video games since his creat ...

, and it includes songs by IAM,

Millie Jackson Mildred Virginia Jackson (born July 15, 1944) is an American R&B and soul recording artist. Beginning her career in the early 1960s, three of Jackson's albums have been certified gold by the RIAA for over 500,000 copies sold. Jackson's songs o ...

Dennis Edwards Dennis Edwards Jr. (February 3, 1943 – February 1, 2018) was an American soul and R&B singer who was best known as the frontman in The Temptations, on Motown Records. Edwards joined the Temptations in 1968, replacing David Ruffin and sang ...

of the

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Isaac Hayes Isaac Lee Hayes Jr. (August 20, 1942 – August 10, 2008) was an American singer, actor, songwriter, and composer. He was one of the creative forces behind the Southern soul music label Stax Records, where he served both as an in-house songw ...

and Cunnie Williams.

In popular culture

The film's title "Comme un aimant" is also a song by

IAM IAM may refer to: Concepts * Identity and access management, a concept that combines business processes, policies and technologies *Indo-Aryan migration, the theory that speakers of Indo-Aryan languages migrated into the Indian subcontinent duri ...

, a

French hip hop French hip hop is the hip hop music style developed in French-speaking countries. France is the second largest hip-hop market in the world after the United States. History Beginning of French hip hop: the 70s and 80s By 1982 and 1983, a numb ...

band from Marseille which Akhenaton and Freeman, two of the actors, belong to.

External links

''Comme un aimant''
at the

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. 2000 films French crime drama films Films scored by Bruno Coulais 2000s French films {{2000s-France-film-stub