Malik has a lot on his plate when he returns home to Tunisia after living in France. He's processing his father's death, he can't come out to his mother, and his childhood anxieties have resurfaced. But all of Malik's problems seem to fade away when he falls for Bilal, the dreamy houseboy at his mother's bourgeois estate.
Director: Mehdi Ben Attia
Cast: Claude Cardinale, Antonin Stahly-Vishwanadan, Salim Kéchiouche, Driss Ramdi, Ramla Ayari, Ali Mrabet, Abir Bennani, Rihab Mejri
CinemaSerf - 7/10
Quite a classy little film, this one. "Malik" (Antonin Viswanadhan) returns from Paris to his home in Tunisia after the death of his father and falls in love with his mother's handyman "Bilal" (Salim Kechiouche). He doesn't so much come out to, as get caught out by, his mother - a still stunning Claudia Cardinale - and the story focuses on the personal and cultural hurdles not just current, but in...
August 7, 2023
Malik has a lot on his plate when he returns home to Tunisia after living in France. He's processing his father's death, he can't come out to his mother, and his childhood anxieties have resurfaced. But all of Malik's problems seem to fade away when he falls for Bilal, the dreamy houseboy at his mother's bourgeois estate.
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Malik has a lot on his plate when he returns home to Tunisia after living in France. He's processing his father's death, he can't come out to his mother, and his childhood anxieties have resurfaced. B…
1h 33m
May 12, 2009
Mehdi Ben Attia
Claude Cardinale, Antonin Stahly-Vishwanadan, Salim Kéchiouche
Romance, Drama
