Abstract
This chapter examines Rachid Djaïdani’s Rengaine [Hold Back] (2012) and Amelle Chahbi’s Amour sur place ou à emporter [Take-Away Romance] (2014), the only French feature films to date that focus on couples in which neither person is a majority-ethnic character (one is black, the other is of Maghrebi descent). Though stylistically very different, both films explore the place of and relationship between diverse minority-ethnic groups in France through the portrayal of these mixed couples. In doing so, they offer new perspectives on the treatment of mixed couples in French cinema while exposing complicated dynamics that exist between different post-migratory postcolonial minorities. Rengaine and Amour sur place ou à emporter condemn racism and discrimination that exist between members of these groups and underscore the respective filmmakers’ desire to portray different kinds of diversity than has previously been seen on the big screen.
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