Rent Exiles (2004)
3.3 of 5 from 73 ratings
1h 44min
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- Synopsis:
The winner of the Best Director award at cannes for director Tony Gatlif (Gadjo Dilo) and starring Romain Duris (The Beat That My Heart Skipped), Exiles is a freewheeling drama about a young couple's nostalgic desire to retrace their parents' steps to Algeria. Zano's (Duris) impulsive idea takes him and his lover Naima (Lubna Azabal) from France and across Spain to the country their parents were forced to fell many years earlier. With only music to accompany them, they launch themselves into inverted exile hitching rides, working as fruit pickers and meeting North Africans heading in the opposite direction. Director Gatlif, previously known for his films on gypsy life, has produced a rewarding and bravura road trip adventure that's partly based on his own family history. An exhilarating and colourful journey, the film also makes a number of incisive cultural insights. - Actors:
- Romain Duris, Lubna Azabal, Zouhir Gacem, Leila Makhlouf, Habib Cheik, Latifa Ahrar, Francisco-Javier Rodriguez-Vega, Mohamed Harrari, Nourredine Heddaj, Hassan Nabat, Elena Aravelo-Gonzalez, Farruquito, Mexicana
- Directors:
- Tony Gatlif
- Writers:
- Tony Gatlif
- Aka:
- Exils
- Studio:
- World Cinema Ltd
- Genres:
- Drama
- Countries:
- France
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Reviews (1) of Exiles
Great movie - Exiles review by PM
Another absorbing film from Tony Gatlif, this time following two people migrating against the flow, ie from Europe to North Africa. As usual Gatlif expresses his talent for exploring realities that mainstream cinema tends to ignore, and disclosing beauty and integrity in unlikely places. Although he presents many scenes in a very artistic and sensitive way, there's also a very primordial, basic instinct quality to much of the film and it's perhaps because of this that the cathartic climax is so effective. In common with many of his other films, it is full of real life character studies, beautifully edited, but he also has a great talent for presenting culture as it is, or might be, without analysing or sanitising it.
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