The Blue Caftan (2022)
(Le bleu du caftan)
Country: FR/MOR/BEL/DK
Technical: col 122m
Director: Maryam Touzani
Cast: Lubna Azabal, Saleh Bakri, Ayoub Missioui
Synopsis:
A tailor and his wife employ an apprentice to help with their demanding business practice, and the husband's homosexual tendencies cry out for release, just as the wife's cancer threatens to take her away from him for good.
Review:
Close-up character drama centred around a vanishing art. The performances are low-key, the pacing deliberate, with perhaps too many scenes which resemble one another. Images such as the sewing of gold braid onto the caftan are delivered in shallow focus, and the exquisite garment gradually becomes freighted with a significance it can barely support. Nevertheless, this is a modestly beautiful film which explores the intimacy of its relationships with honesty and delicacy.
(Le bleu du caftan)
Country: FR/MOR/BEL/DK
Technical: col 122m
Director: Maryam Touzani
Cast: Lubna Azabal, Saleh Bakri, Ayoub Missioui
Synopsis:
A tailor and his wife employ an apprentice to help with their demanding business practice, and the husband's homosexual tendencies cry out for release, just as the wife's cancer threatens to take her away from him for good.
Review:
Close-up character drama centred around a vanishing art. The performances are low-key, the pacing deliberate, with perhaps too many scenes which resemble one another. Images such as the sewing of gold braid onto the caftan are delivered in shallow focus, and the exquisite garment gradually becomes freighted with a significance it can barely support. Nevertheless, this is a modestly beautiful film which explores the intimacy of its relationships with honesty and delicacy.
(Le bleu du caftan)
Country: FR/MOR/BEL/DK
Technical: col 122m
Director: Maryam Touzani
Cast: Lubna Azabal, Saleh Bakri, Ayoub Missioui
Synopsis:
A tailor and his wife employ an apprentice to help with their demanding business practice, and the husband's homosexual tendencies cry out for release, just as the wife's cancer threatens to take her away from him for good.
Review:
Close-up character drama centred around a vanishing art. The performances are low-key, the pacing deliberate, with perhaps too many scenes which resemble one another. Images such as the sewing of gold braid onto the caftan are delivered in shallow focus, and the exquisite garment gradually becomes freighted with a significance it can barely support. Nevertheless, this is a modestly beautiful film which explores the intimacy of its relationships with honesty and delicacy.