Film-lovers hope movies can help revive London neighbourhood scarred by riots
LONDON - Isaac Densu lives in Broadwater Farm, a large, concrete public housing estate in Tottenham, the gritty and deprived district where last year's riots began.
Unemployment is high, and young people face many temptations to get into trouble. Densu thinks he knows what might help: a good movie.
The idea was tested Wednesday, when hundreds of residents attended a free screening of "La Haine" ("Hate"), a powerful 1995 film about alienated youth on the impoverished high-rise fringes of Paris.
Some questioned the wisdom of showing a movie about brutality and gun violence in an area scarred by both. But Densu said he hoped it would be "a springboard for people to redirect the hate they feel for the establishment"
