(France, Morocco, 2005)
With Morjana Aloui, Mathieu Boujenah and Razika Simozrag.
Directed by Laïla Marrakchi
Category : Drama.
Length : 1:40.
Classification : Not defined
Movie description :
The Morocco of "Marock" is a myopic Casablanca of hip affluent youth, sun-bleached architecture, royal palms, and rip curls that bleed into unhindered azure and cotton-candy clouds. The nights are a dance of lights and souls, of slick rides and booming floor-shakers. This is 17-year-old Rita's Casablanca, a playland of youthful romance, friendship and endless capers. It's easy to identify with, all too easy to want what Rita and her friends have: days spent sunning on carpeted roofs to a soundtrack of Bewlay Brothers Bowie, The Auteurs and Grand National. The film never loses this halcyon feel even as Rita, a secular Arab, falls tragically in love with a hunky Jewish dude named Youri, as her brother broods over some past evil, or as her best friend Sofia gets bundled into an arranged marriage. These are just burrs in lives that seem limitless in their promise, tensions that come to the surface but which the film never exploits for the sake of melodrama.
