A beautiful mixture of cinematographic genres, between fantasy and study of manners for this intriguing Algerian film.
The synopsis
Promised to a great future in his father’s hydrocarbon business, Reda sees his life rocking on the death of the patriarch, having to face a world from which it had so far been preserved, until it seeed its reflection disappear from the mirrors …
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-Paris Match Critique (3/5)
Disturbed, like the young Reda, a young Algerian bourgeois who sees his reflection in the mirror disappear after the death of his father, a large industry captain. Disorder like this captivating, confusing film, which plays with the themes, both acerbic chronic of the contemporary Algerian patriarchal society and genre film, fantastic thriller, closed doors and customs study. Beyond an elegant and oppressive image, the interest of the film by Karim Moussaoui (“while waiting for the swallows”) is to never really answer the questions he poses, thus nourishing his own mysteries (often finely, sometimes until excess); Those of a character lost as an elusive, attractive, frustrating hands undeniably intriguing.
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By Karim Moussaoui
With Sammy Lechea, Zar Amir
