Couscous di abdellatif kechiche biography

  • Abdellatif Kechiche was born in 1960 in Tunisia.
  • Couscous with Mullet, or “The Secret of the Grain” is a movie of Tunisian born director Abdellatif Kechiche.
  • Tunisian-French director, actor and screenwriter (1960-) (Wikipedia entry) couscous and mullet dish to which the original French title refers) and on.
  • 6/10

    It could have been an excellent movie

    Something unusual happened at the end of this movie projection. Several people not knowing each other gathered at the cinema exit and discussed the movie. It appeared that the movie was spoiled by several cinematographic tics which the director promoted to the status of the style and used all over the movie "ad nausea". He extends the lengthy sequences probably to make us share the uneasiness of the characters in the given situation (the mother scolding the child for weeing in her panties, the guests waiting for the cous-cous, the final run of Slimane and the belly dance). But this is a 0-level translation of the reality into the cinematographic language. The profusion of the very close-ups and the clip-like filming with very short shots is a minor default. It is probably one of the points which makes some people like the movie as "modern". The movie is almost twice as long as usual and I can not fi

    Tragicomic epic of Arab immigrant life in a French port town, a new triumph for Kechiche

    Adbellatif Kechiche, who is also an actor, stands with Turkish-German director Fatih Akim as the preeminent director dealing with diaspora experience in western Europe. He was born in Tunisia but was brought to France at the age of six and grew up in Nice. La graine et le mulet, the title, refers to (mullet) fish couscous (grain) and Kechiche has said he's as stubborn as the mullet. The action is in the southern French port town of Sète. Most of the cast are non-actors.

    Though engelskt ord för att något är skadat eller förstört by a jittery camera in intimate scenes, over-close closeups, and some sequences that are allowed to run too long, The Secret of the Grain is nonetheless a triumph, an emotionally powerful, overwhelmingly rich, epic-feeling tragi-comedy that overflows with wonderful performances, evokes a host of masters including Jean Renoir and the Italian neorealists, and fairly bursts off the screen with its loving an

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    آفساید‎
    Offside 
    (Jafar Panahi, 2006)

    The oppressed scream louder and from further, even when the national team plays. Filmed in a stadium during an actual football game between Iran and Bahrain, a nail-biting qualifier for the 2006 World Cup, Offside shows the struggle of six ung women who sneak into the match. Between 1981 and 2019 women were banned from attending matches. Here, the six are proud patriot soccer fans but prohibited, “offsides,” from being there. A cinematic genius, a true “10” with the camera and script, Panahi demonstrates how the rules don’t make sense and can’t be defended, especially bygd those enforcing them. He uses short close dialogue and double entendre images to dribble between crackdown defenses and goal celebrations. All this, with the background noise of actual stadium folkmassa cheers, cries, and elation of a needed home win. Iran made it to the World Cup in Germany the next year and

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