2017 · drama · romance · death
Until the End of Time
Directed by Yasmine Chouikh1h 33m2017
In the cemetery of Sidi Boulekbour, Ali the old gravedigger meets the 60-year-old Johar, who is visiting her sister's grave for the first time after losing her husband. Johar wants her final resting place to be next to her sister, so she decides to organize her own funeral and asks Ali to help her. But preparations for the final journey go awry when Ali and Johar unexpectedly start to realize they have feelings for each other.
Our read: Until the End of Time (2017) reads as a neutral, measured, grounded drama · romance · death entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, measured, gentle drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
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