Couscous di abdellatif kechiche biography
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Abdellatif Kechiche
La Faute a Voltaire/ Blame it on Voltaire/ Poetical Refugee (2000)
L'Esquive/ Games of Love and Chance (2003)
La Graine et le Mulet/ The Secret of the Grain/ Couscous (2007)
Venus Noire/ Black Venus (2010)
There is probably a great film buried in all the sex, food and cigarettes of La Vie d'Adele/ Blue is the Warmest Color (2013). The problem is that Kechiche falls into the ultimate French stereotype that a film must have a ridiculous number of scenes showing people eating, smoking and having sex. The emphasis on showing every detail of lesbian sex is equivalent equivalent to a horror movie that shows all the gorey details of a man's intestine being torn apart instead of subtly letting the viewer imagine it. If one removed all the sex, the eating and the smoking, this would be a good one-hour film. Instead, it feels way overlong for what it has to say.
Mektoub My Love Canto Uno (2017), the first part of a trilogy,
The 4-hour Mektoub My Love Intermezzo (2019), the second part,
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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 marred 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 and complex portraits of Magreban society in France and the harsh world in which they struggle and survive. The main focus for all this is food: two grand meals, one intimate and familial, the other in a projected couscous restaurant on an old boat where friends and family and local officials are all
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6/10
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