Macadam Stories (French: Asphalte) is a 2015 French comedy-drama film written and directed by Samuel Benchetrit, and based on the first volume of Benchetrit's autobiography Les Chroniques de l'Asphalte. The film was selected to be screened in the Special Screenings section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macadam_Stories Improbable encounters bring tenderness, laughter and compassion to a world of urban alienation. source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4357368/ ***SPOILER ALERT*** Life in a Parisian Public Housing Complex KRASNAYA: Director and author Samuel Benchetrit brings much of his autobiographical book Asphalt Chronicles to the screen as Asphalt, a series of interconnected vignettes set in a public housing complex on the outskirts of Paris. With a focus on six characters, we meet the terminally depressed Sternkowitz (Belgian comic-filmmaker Gustave Kervern), who in the opening scenes finds himself p...