Le Bleu du caftan

2022 [ARABIC]

Drama / Romance

18
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 96% · 56 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 88% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.5/10 10 7765 7.8K

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Plot summary

A middle-aged tailor and his wife find their relationship challenged by the arrival of a handsome new apprentice.

Director

Maryam Touzani Photo
Maryam Touzani

Top cast

Saleh Bakri Photo
Saleh Bakri as Halim
Lubna Azabal Photo
Lubna Azabal as Mina
Zakaria Atifi Photo
Zakaria Atifi as Bachir
Mohamed Naimane Photo
Mohamed Naimane as Bathhouse Employee
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Arabic 2.0
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24 fps
2 hr 2 min
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Arabic 5.1
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2 hr 2 min
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Persian 2.0
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2 hr 2 min
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Persian 2.0
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2 hr 2 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by CinemaSerf 7 / 10

Halim" (Saleh Bakri) lives with his ailing wife

"Halim" (Saleh Bakri) lives with his ailing wife "Mina" (Lubna Azabal) and together they run a small tailoring business. Now he is a master craftsman, everything is measured, cut and stitched by hand - a fairly labour intensive and time consuming process. To help meet the demands of his impatient customers, he has acquired an handsome apprentice "Youssef" (Ayoub Missioui) who takes a keen interest in his work and demonstrates an aptitude that is increasingly appreciated by "Halim". What's also fairly obvious is that both men are attracted to each other and we now embark on a rather delicate triangle in which the two men - entirely platonically - develop their relationship under the watchful gaze of his wife whom we suspect suspects, but... It's a very gently paced film this, allowing the three strong performances from these on-form character actors to develop slowly and engagingly and though the underpinning issues of sexuality in a country that is still largely unwelcoming is part of the theme, it is not a greater a part than the observation of the couple's happy marriage nor of the creative beauty of the men's skills at creating garments of delicacy and fineness. It's a film about discovery and family and I found it worked really quite well as we navigate a myriad of challenges towards the conclusion that, like the rest of this story, is anything but simple. It's quite observational in nature, so don't expect things to rattle along - they don't, but it draws together threads of lives and choices in as intricate a fashion as any of his creations and is really well worth a watch.
Reviewed by RedaX*

Very mediocre and not a step-up from Meryam

Very mediocre and not a step-up from Meryam Touzani's first feature which was also an okay film. The relationship between the three main characters wasn't dynamic or memorable. The moments when the film was trying to go deep with the relationship of the characters or their past didn't bring us closer to the characters. And I have to say that Loubna Azabal and Saleh Bakri Moroccan dialect isn't compelling and it was a barrier between us - the audience - and the characters.
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