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Monthly Archives: December 2010
Analysis/Review of L’enfant endormi / The Sleeping Child by Yasmine Kassari
Set in the north-east of Morocco in the Atlas Mountains, Kassari’s film takes us into a small douar or village where the scenario is almost entirely populated by women, as the young men have left for clandestine labor in Europe. … Continue reading
Posted in Moroccan films
Tagged arabic, cinema, cinema and culture, ethnographic film, film, immigrant cinema, international cinema, international film, international movies, l'enfant endormi, middle east, Moroccan, Moroccan cinema, Moroccan film, Moroccan movies, Morocco, movies, north africa, north african cinema, the sleeping child, yasmine kassari
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Noureddine Lakhmari’s Moroccan film CasaNegra Analysis/Review
I’m doing something a little different in this week’s blog. I’m having a guest blogger who is letting me take extracts from his excellent paper “A Feminist Reading of the Moroccan Film Casanegra”, Younnes Abeddour from Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah … Continue reading
Posted in Moroccan films
Tagged arabic, Casa Negra, Casanegra, cinema, cinema and culture, film, international cinema, international film, international movies, Lakhmari, middle east, Moroccan, Moroccan cinema, Moroccan film, Moroccan movies, Morocco, movies, north africa, north african cinema, Nour Eddine Lakhmari, Noureddine Lakhmari
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Some cultural elements in the film Captain Abu Raed by Amin Matalqa
With a number of great synopses out on the internet about Captain Abu Raed, as usual I want to focus less on that and more on some specific cultural elements embedded in the film. However, since you might not want … Continue reading
Posted in netflix films
Tagged amin matalqa, arabic, captain abu raed, cinema, cinema and culture, film, international cinema, international movies, jordan, jordanian cinema, middle east, movies
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The Secret of the Grain (Le Grain et le Mulet)
The Secret of the Grain, English film release title, which also was released variously as Le Grain et le Mulet and Couscous, is Ahmed Kechiche’s third feature film, which has been reviewed variously by Roger Ebert (http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090121/REVIEWS/901219993/1023 ) and A.O. … Continue reading
Posted in greencine films
Tagged cinema, film, france, french film, immigrant cinema, international cinema, kechiche, le grain et le mulet, movies, the secret of the grain
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