Couscous (La graine et le mulet, France, 2007)

Father-daughter love This is a terrific film. I don’t think I’ve seen scenes of such emotional rawness since Frederick Wiseman’s Titicut Follies (1967). The improvisation gives certain scenes a documentary intensity. The use of narrative is also striking: the two set piece ‘meal’ scenes go on for an extremely long time compared with the succinctness [...]

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