The read
It runs a compact 1h 23m.
Synopsis
Driss is a jack-of-all trades type who sells fish from his car and moves furniture from one end of his hometown Tangiers to the other. His girlfriend is a free-spirited and wealthy European lass who runs an antique shop. One day, Driss becomes fascinated with Fouad, an old man who runs a rundown café by the beach. Fouad disdains his fellow Moroccans, calling them lazy, preferring the company of Europeans -- particularly, as Driss later learns -- young European women. Always on the make, Driss offers Fouad a business proposition -- to revamp his establishment and turn it into a proper restaurant with Driss as his business partner. He is later shocked and hurt to learn that Fouad starts to remodel his business but without Driss. Sending out his friends as spies, Driss learns a number of unsettling things about his would-be associate.
Ratings
4 audience votes
Key crew
- André TéchinéWriter
- Benoît GraffinWriter
- Philippe MillerOriginal Music Composer
- Benoît GraffinDirector
Cast
- Ouassini EmbarekDriss
- Jacques NolotFouad
- Leïla BelarbiBetsoul
- Delia AmraniZineb
- Meriem SerbahMalika
- Mohamed El HasnaouiMuet
- Ayoub RachatiMoustapha
- Nadem RachatiAbdelsam
- Abdelaziz SemlaliVieux pëcheur
- Hind RamdiAïcha
- Naima LamcharkiLa Mère de Detsoul
- Dale BenettAméricain