Rich lady coaches poor kid for acting school. Class collision chaos ensues.
Well-off Suzanna becomes a coach for the Moroccan Soukri. She tries to get him into acting school.
Acting
Mamoun Elyounoussi's restrained, watchful presence
Writing
Ambiguous satire—are we laughing at or with?
Director
Joram Lürsen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Joram Lürsen deliberately left Suzanne's motivations ambiguous—audiences split evenly on whether she's narcissist or genuinely caring, which was the point.
The film sparked debate in Dutch cinema about 'integration films'—critics noted it premiered the same year the Netherlands shifted right on immigration, making its satire accidentally prescient.
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