Goodbye Morocco (2012)
Country: FR/BEL
Technical: col/2.35:1 102m
Director: Nadir Moknèche
Cast: Lubna Azabal, Radivoje Bukvic, Faouzi Bensaïdi
Synopsis:
A building entrepreneur discovers an ancient Roman fresco at her site and employs all manner of chicanery to find a private buyer so that she can run away to Spain with her son. She does not reckon with the turbulent emotions of her minder and childhood friend, Ali.
Review:
A sparse narrative confusingly told, including an unnecessary flashback device; it is hard to tell where our interests should lie: in the mother/son relationship, in the artefact, the young Nigerian and the cinema manager, or in the love triangle. Azabal is a resourceful actress, and she does a good job here as a hard-nosed businesswoman, but viewers may wonder where this is going right the way up to the offhand final shot.
Country: FR/BEL
Technical: col/2.35:1 102m
Director: Nadir Moknèche
Cast: Lubna Azabal, Radivoje Bukvic, Faouzi Bensaïdi
Synopsis:
A building entrepreneur discovers an ancient Roman fresco at her site and employs all manner of chicanery to find a private buyer so that she can run away to Spain with her son. She does not reckon with the turbulent emotions of her minder and childhood friend, Ali.
Review:
A sparse narrative confusingly told, including an unnecessary flashback device; it is hard to tell where our interests should lie: in the mother/son relationship, in the artefact, the young Nigerian and the cinema manager, or in the love triangle. Azabal is a resourceful actress, and she does a good job here as a hard-nosed businesswoman, but viewers may wonder where this is going right the way up to the offhand final shot.
Country: FR/BEL
Technical: col/2.35:1 102m
Director: Nadir Moknèche
Cast: Lubna Azabal, Radivoje Bukvic, Faouzi Bensaïdi
Synopsis:
A building entrepreneur discovers an ancient Roman fresco at her site and employs all manner of chicanery to find a private buyer so that she can run away to Spain with her son. She does not reckon with the turbulent emotions of her minder and childhood friend, Ali.
Review:
A sparse narrative confusingly told, including an unnecessary flashback device; it is hard to tell where our interests should lie: in the mother/son relationship, in the artefact, the young Nigerian and the cinema manager, or in the love triangle. Azabal is a resourceful actress, and she does a good job here as a hard-nosed businesswoman, but viewers may wonder where this is going right the way up to the offhand final shot.