2017 · drama · comedy · religion
Sheikh Jackson
Directed by Amr Salama1h 34m2017
The sudden death of Michael Jackson sends a former King of Pop devotee — now a young imam — into a tailspin, in this tender and comedic film from Egyptian filmmaker Amr Salama.
Our read: Sheikh Jackson (2017) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive drama · comedy · religion entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured drama / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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