1995 · drama · religious
A Muslim
Directed by Moumen Smihi1h 30m1995
This film, the first in what has become a semi-autobiographical trilogy for Smihi, follows the everyday experiences of Mohamed-Larbi Salmi against the changing Moroccan society. In 1950s Tangier, Larbi Salmi is a young, timid, pre-teen, boy, trying to make sense of the gentle religious upbringing of his father, the secular education offered him in French school, and his budding desires for the forbidden pleasures of the cinema and the women he meets through it.
Our read: A Muslim (1995) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · religious entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / religious, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
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