2014 · comedy · parody
Jacky in the Kingdom of Women
Directed by Riad Sattouf1h 30m2014
In a country where women are in charge, a man goes to unusual lengths to make his dream of marrying the daughter of a military leader come true.
Our read: Jacky in the Kingdom of Women (2014) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive comedy · parody entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, gentle comedy / parody, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
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- gentle
- inventive
- cold
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