Banlieue et la construction d’identité du personnage principal dans le film Divines

<p class="Abstract">This article reveals the suburbs as a place of residence and the&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 1rem;">construction of the identity of the main character in the film Divines&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">(2016) by Houda Benyamina. This film tells of a life of teenagers in&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">France of African immigrants in a suburb. Dounia who is a teenager&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">has the ambition to leave the suburbs and have the life out of the&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">suburbs. The suburb is the setting of the film representing a residence&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">far from downtown whose living conditions are less appropriate. It is&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">a form of social segregation created by the French government which&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">has multiple social problems to its inhabitants. The methodology used&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">is the qualitative research methods. To analyze the narratives and&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">cinematographic aspects, the theory of film studies of Boggs &amp;amp; Petrie&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">has been used, while the concept of identity of Stuart Hall has been&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">used to reveal the social problems of these young people about their&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">identity. The result of the analysis shows that the suburbs appears like&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">a hard and violent space for its inhabitants, and the characters are&nbsp;</span>haunted by dreams of escape. Dounia has fantasies of freedom and luxury which she could find them&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 1rem;">outside the suburb. As the suburb is a living space, the ambition is simply to leave the suburbs. The&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">identity of Dounia is built from her efforts to achieve her ultimate dream: a new life out of the suburbs.</span></p>