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Spain · 2010
1h 18m
Director Oliver Laxe
Starring France Aline, Hicham Amidallah, Mohamed Bablouh, Bilal Belcheikh
Genre Documentary
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A European director is making a film with children from a social center in Tangiers. Because of his methods, his relationship with the children during shooting degenerates and transforms the evolution of the project.
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When onscreen Laxe loses control of the film-within-the-film, off-screen Laxe's voice is subsumed into dreamily beautiful footage following a "script" laid out earlier by the kids. Or so it seems - by that point, we've seen enough of Laxe's brilliantly constructed deconstruction of "truth" versus "fiction" to know to question the authorship of every frame.
Slant Magazine by Andrew Schenker
Oliver Laxe goes full-on meta by casting himself in the role of a visiting moviemaker who travels to Morocco to shoot footage with disadvantaged children living in a shelter.
We've been here before; you may now yell "Cut!," print it and call the concept a wrap.
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