mEDITERRANEAN FEVER
Type: dramatic comedy ✦✦✦
Director: Maha Haj. With Amer Hlehel, Ashraf Farah, Anat Hadid, Samir Elias and Cynthia Saleem
Amer Hlehel and Ashraf Farah.
In Haifa, the city of coexistence (in theory) between Arabs and Israelis, two men who couldn’t be more different experience a kind of friendship.
waleed is, in the words of the author, «the embodiment of the Palestinian depressionfollowing the Nakba», the forced exodus of Arabs from the territories occupied by Israel in 1948. Jalal is a nice rogue who lives by expedients and refuses the burden imposed by the past.
Of the Screenplay Award Un Certain regard at Cannes 2022 he is certainly responsible the spot-on melange of poetry and politics and black comedy and humour. A “buddy movie”, a film that has a virile, anomalous and deeper duo than one would expect.
LEGEND
✦ modest
✦✦ good
✦✦✦ excellent
✦✦✦✦ masterpiece
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