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The Blue Caftan (Arabic: أزرق القفطان, released in France as Le Bleu du caftan) is a 2022 Moroccan Arabic-language drama film directed by Maryam Touzani, and written by Touzani with the collaboration of Nabil Ayouch.
Jun 5, 2022 · The job takes weeks and would earn them a fine sum, but Touzani has introduced the caftan as a symbol, and it’s touching to see how the film uses it in the end.
Feb 10, 2023 · Later in the movie, he’ll tell Youssef that his mother died giving birth to him and that his father subsequently despised him. “Mina erased all that,” he concludes. The situations in this scrupulous, compassionate, and quietly captivating picture, written and directed by Maryam Touzani, are tense, to be sure.
May 5, 2023 · The Blue Caftan is a film that venerates the tradition of craft while arguing that true freedom also requires a break with an oppressive status quo. It ends with a perfect poetic expression of this idea, with a deeply touching gesture from Mina and a tribute from Halim that combine defiance, devotion and transcendent love.
Feb 10, 2023 · Unhurried in its pace, “The Blue Caftan” dwells in the myriad of small gestures on which Halim and Mina’s relationship is forged: the boisterous laughs they share over the simplest of things,...
May 26, 2022 · Moroccan writer-director Maryam Touzani’s stirring second feature maps a melancholy relationship triangle involving an artisanal tailor, his dying wife and his male apprentice. By David Rooney....
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Feb 11, 2023 · Tying grief and companionship together is a conventional way for The Blue Caftan to end, but the final shot is a quietly radical swerve.
