Kadib Abyad

2023 [ARABIC]

Biography / Documentary / Drama / History

4
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 100% · 37 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 100%
IMDb Rating 6.7/10 10 646 646

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Plot summary

On a handmade set re-creating her Casablanca neighborhood, a young Moroccan filmmaker enlists family and friends to help unearth the troubling lies built into her childhood.

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896.56 MB
1280*720
Arabic 2.0
Not Rated
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25 fps
1 hr 37 min
Seeds 3
1.62 GB
1920*1080
Arabic 2.0
Not Rated
us  ca  es  
25 fps
1 hr 37 min
Seeds 3

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Maria L 10 / 10

Deeply intimate and personal yet never veering into

Deeply intimate and personal yet never veering into manipulative or egocentric. I was so grateful to see this family, this culture, this moment in history through these eyes. Wonderful film with incredible, yet subtle strength, affording a magical reward to those with the patience and kindness to watch and listen. What I loved most was how confident this filmmaker was in her approach to telling the story and how trusting that her audience would follow along on this unconventional narrative and cinematic ride.
Reviewed by Moody C 5 / 10

It’s an important story to tell with some

It’s an important story to tell with some insight to psychological trauma and its impacts namely suppression of agonizing memories and roadblocks of moving forward afterwards but it doesn’t mean this is compelling filmmaking, and it did not hold my attention throughout as I was just hoping it end alredy. You know ending will be bittersweet and surely tug the heartstrings and it certainly did but movie as a whole needed more work.
Reviewed by peter0969 8 / 10

Saw this at the DOC NYC 2023 Film Festival.The Mother of All Lies premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Un Certain Regard for Best Director for director Asmae El Moudir and upon seeing this movie, I can understand why. It's an very intriguing and fascinating examination on the 1981 Bread Riots in Morocco with interesting themes of family background, lies, and ideas of memories explored. Throughout, the movie blends with real life interviews and claymation models to demonstrate the settings and discussions (similar to The Missing Picture) and Moudir provides strong directing on balancing out the two with strong emotions, themes, and great discussions that are interesting and fascinating to listen to.The camerawork is beautiful and each participant from family members and so forth provide good discussions and insights about the massacre, family backgrounds, and the traumatic experiences. The uses of the clay models felt purposeful and many of the themes and directions from Moudir felt purposeful and not all over the place. The dialogue and emotions are really good and admittedly, there are still some emotional moments and scenes that are still burned into my memory. My own small issue is that certain pacing moments could have been better.Overall, I can see why it won the award from Cannes and it's a great documentary.
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