Movie Review: Outside the Law

“Outside the Law” is the companion film to 2006’s “Days of Glory” from Rachid Bouchared, where Glory detailed the almost orgotten history of Algerian importance in the liberation of France in WW2, (a horrific blight on Allied Forces that these soldiers, about to enter victoriously in Paris in 1944, were replaced with more photogenic white soldiers). ”Outside the Law” is the struggle for independence for Algeria in a guerrilla war against France on her own soil.It begins in 1928 with the appropriation of land from Algerian farmers and moves through to the early 50’s when 3 brothers we initially meet as young boys leaving their ancestral home are now 3 very distant, sadly quite shallow stereotypes. There is the thief, the scholar (he wears glasses) and the one in the middle; and this sentence is in fact more character development than you will see in the entire 2hrs 20 mins.