Starting off with a brief overview of French cinema from the silent period to the present, King then focuses on eight films that are both multicultural and multilingual, and examines how the use of Kurdish, Tamil, Arabic and other languages within these films empowers the cultures they represent as well as the languages themselves. King argues that by refusing to center the French language in contemporary French cinema, these films among them Jacques Audiards Dheepan (2015) and Un prophčte (2009), Laurent Cantets Entre les murs (2008), Philippe Liorets Welcome (2009) force cinemagoers into a deeper engagement with issues of class, race, nationality, and cultural privilege. G. A. Foster, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, CHOICE, October 2018, Vol. 56, No. 2 -- .
