Malik has a lot on his plate when he returns home to Tunisia after living in France. He's processing his father's death, he can't come out to his mother, and his childhood anxieties have resurfaced. But all of Malik's problems seem to fade away when he falls for Bilal, the dreamy houseboy at his mother's bourgeois estate.
Acting
Claudia Cardinale's matriarch simmers with unsaid everything.
Cinematography
Sun-drenched Tunisia makes repression look gorgeous.
Director
Mehdi Ben Attia
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Cardinale, Italian-Tunisian cinema royalty, brings meta-layered authenticity to a film about hybrid identities.
TN
