Couscous
- 2007
- France
- 2h 34min
- 15
- Directed by: Abdel Kechiche
- Cast: Habib Boufares, Hafsia Herzi, Farida Benkhetache
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61-year-old weary Maghrebi émigré Silmane (Boufares) is in need of a miracle after being made redundant. Choosing to open a North African restaurant rather than retire, the action revolves around Sunday dinner for his extended family, where the depiction of Arab family life rivals that of 'La Haine' and 'Days of Glory'. 'Part of Huntly Hairst Festival of Food and Farming'.
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Couscous (La Graine et le mulet)
19 Jun 2008
DRAMA (15) 154min Filmmaker Abdel Kechiche builds on the promise that he displayed with 2003’s L’Esquive by creating a drama similar in style and spirit to Vittorio De Sica’s 1951 neorealist fantasy Miracle in Milan. The man in need of a miracle in the…
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