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Aug 28, 2020 · With his painterly frames and quiet yet effective use of sound design, it was one of the most memorable debut films in recent memory. Ghost Tropic, his new film, not only is just as beautiful and ...
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Apr 8, 2022 · You Promised Me the Sea. by Fabien Lemercier. 08/04/2022 - Youssouf Abi-Ayad, Kenza Fortas, Arturo Giusi-Périer, Saadia Bentaïeb, Zinedine Soualem, Lubna Azabal and Zaya Dehar are in the cast of this Blue Monday production sold by Pyramide. Actor Youssouf Abi-Ayad (© Jean-Louis Fernandez), actress Kenza Fortas and actor Arturo Giusi-Périer.
Aug 23, 2020 · With an absurdist black humor, those films captured the paranoia of the city night, and Ghost Tropic’s premise—a middle-aged cleaning lady, Khadija (Saadia Bentaïeb), struggles to make her way home through the streets of Brussels after falling asleep on the metro and finding herself at the end of the line—is implicit with a similar air of danger. As a Muslim woman from Molenbeek, a ...
May 28, 2019 · There’s even laughter, some of the heartiest heard on screen in a long time, when Devos introduces the film’s protagonist, played outstandingly by French theatre thespian Saadia Bentaïeb in her first-ever lead role on film. Khadija, a cleaning woman of Maghrebi descent in her late fifties, and her workmates are enjoying a coffee/tea break and telling stories.
2023 — Saadia Drama, 1 hr 24 min
Aug 26, 2020 · The third film from the Belgian director Bas Devos, it’s about a cleaning lady crossing Brussels by foot in the frigid wee hours, trying to get home. In her journey, she meets other denizens of ...
Aug 28, 2020 · Khadija (Saadia Bentaïeb) is a 58-year-old Maghrebi woman living in Brussels in the wake of the 2016 bombings that shook the city. After work one...
