From La faute à Voltaire (2000) to L’esquive (2003) and La graine et le mulet (2007), Franco-Tunisian filmmaker Abdellatif Kechiche underscores the critical importance of spoken language among all communities, in particular among communities that share multiple idioms and more than one language. However, the spoken word, for Kechiche, is not only about what is said or how it is said but equally important is where it is spoken. This paper will examine spaces of enunciation, such as the empty lands around the high-rises in L’esquive or the underground metro in La faute à Voltaire and domestic interiors in La graine et le mulet in order to shed light on the way in which space interacts with language creatively and ultimately transforms the way communities are represented; for example to what extent does a linguistic idiom that mixes French and Arabic effect different results when spoken in a government office or in a football terrain in the suburbs of Paris? How do certain spaces require certain registers of language and what are the consequences when expectations of these rules are destabilized? Combining vertiginous dialogues, reflective silences or musical interludes and everyday spaces, Kechiche testifies to a poetic of a twenty-first century quotidian that, despite conforming to a tradition of social realism in Maghrebi-French cinema, presents us with something radically innovative; by transforming the representation of spaces that are commonly featured as “problematic”, or marginal, into central places of everyday practices he eschews the clichés which characterize a number of works by his predecessors. Drawing on theoretical works of Marc Augé and Michel De Certeau, this paper ultimately aims to contribute to an ongoing dialogue about Franco-Maghrebi relations today.