All three of the Arabic films in this article concern fathers and sons. The bonds of respect and the seeds of future relationships which men make are found in this primary relationship.Yomeddine, sweet, naive and satisfying, was written and directed by A.B. Shawky. Egypt’s official submission for the 2019 Oscars in the Foreign Language category, this film played very well to a huge and enthusiastic audience both here in El Gouna and in Cannes where it premiered.Bashay Rady Gamal) leaving the leper colony with his beloved donkey is followed by his young orphaned friend, The Nubian, Obama,.
You can — and should — bring children to see this film. The best was watching this film with children here in El Gouna where it screened in a sold-out open-air theater of 1,200 seats with a desert breeze moving the scenes of huge landscapes in waves as if they were planned visual effects.
You can — and should — bring children to see this film. The best was watching this film with children here in El Gouna where it screened in a sold-out open-air theater of 1,200 seats with a desert breeze moving the scenes of huge landscapes in waves as if they were planned visual effects.
- 9/27/2018
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
We do not live in subtle times, and of all nuance-annihilating topics, few are as dramatically divisive as jihadism. Which makes Mohammed Ben Attia’s delicate portrait of devastation, “Dear Son,” remarkable for the quietness of its approach, its rich, calm, generous characterizations, and the compassion it evokes for extremism’s more indirect victims. After his award-winning 2016 debut “Hedi,” which was, like “Dear Son,” co-produced by the Dardenne brothers, Ben Attia has confirmed himself as an unassuming auteur of ordinary life in Tunisia, in which global, block-capital concerns are writ in intimate, personal cursive.
The film is both anchored and elevated by a performance of simple, radiant decency from Mohamed Dhrif, an actor whose few credits mostly date back to the 1980s. He plays Riadh, a Tunisian dock worker married to Nazli who is the pragmatic foil to Riadh’s slightly impractical optimism. Their son, Sami (Zakaria Ben Ayed) is...
The film is both anchored and elevated by a performance of simple, radiant decency from Mohamed Dhrif, an actor whose few credits mostly date back to the 1980s. He plays Riadh, a Tunisian dock worker married to Nazli who is the pragmatic foil to Riadh’s slightly impractical optimism. Their son, Sami (Zakaria Ben Ayed) is...
- 5/22/2018
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
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