On a grandi ensemble

In Ivry sur Seine in the Parisian suburbs the Gagarin housing estate was a symbol Destroyed in 2020 this film brings it back to life through the eyes of Adnane Tragha who grew up across the street and through the words of its former inhabitants Back in the deserted city they evoke their memories of the place Daniel Loïc Karima Yvette Foued Samira and Mehdy tell us about their lives their experiences and their feelings The difficulties as well as the solidarity the stigmatization as well as the mutual aid the good memories as well as the bad Crossing temporalities and experiences We grew up together paints through small subjective touches the story of a city like so many others This film is a counterhistory the rehabilitation of a word that is too rare a hymn to workingclass neighborhoods At the same time documentary fiction archival work We grew up together is multifaceted like the city