Featuring superb performances by first-time actors Aïcha Tebbae and Abdellah El Hajjouji as a peripatetic mother and son, Fyzal Boulifa’s second feature is a finely textured film.
The 79th Venice International Film Festival has drawn to a close after an intense 11 days. Despite new movies from Darren Aronofsky, Andrew Dominik and others, the big talking point on social media was Olivia Wilde's out-of-competition entry Don't Worry Darling. Florence Pugh didn't turn up to the press conference, further fuelling rumours that she and Wilde are feuding. Then.
14/09/2022 - VENICE 2022: Fyzal Boulifa’s beautifully made second feature charts the divergent fortunes of a mother and her late-adolescent son in Morocco, who are forced into itinerant, unstable work