Renault 12

May. 09,2018      
Rating:
8
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Shortly after his mother’s passing, playwright and stage director Mohamed El Khatib receives a phone call from his uncle in Bab Berred, the family’s village in the Moroccan Rif, instructing him to come as soon as possible to collect his inheritance – mysteriously insisting that he should make the trip in a Renault 12. Coaxed by his father, El Khatib decides to make the journey from Orléans to Tangier. Structured like a road movie, Renault 12 is also the filmmaker’s quest to discover his own origins, in which he both documents chance encounters and stages situations to bring social, political, and cultural landscapes to light.

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Reviews

Lucybespro
2018/05/09

It is a performances centric movie

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Supelice
2018/05/10

Dreadfully Boring

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Leoni Haney
2018/05/11

Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

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Jenni Devyn
2018/05/12

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

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