Le Gone du Chaâba (The Kid of the Chaaba), translated into English as Shantytown Kid by Naima Wolf, is an autobiographical novel by Azouz Begag about his life as a young Algerian boy growing up in a shantytown next to Lyon, France, called the Chaâba by its inhabitants. The story covers a period of approximately three years in the life of the protagonist and deals with issues developing from the clash between two cultures, that of France and that of North Africa, as well as the difficulties of finding a cultural identity between the two.
The Kid from Chaaba has generally received positive reviews.
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The Kid from Chaaba was released in 1998 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 1 reviews, giving The Kid from Chaaba (1998) an average rating of 70%.
Overall, cinema-goers much prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 60%, compared to film critics, who gave it a considerably lower average score of 0%. Amateur reviewers enjoyed The Kid from Chaaba a lot more than professional critics.
With a score of 70%, The Kid from Chaaba is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1998, which stands at 58%.
Other movies from 1998 with similar scores include films like There's Something About Mary, The Mask of Zorro and City of Angels.
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