Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Exit Marrakech (2013)

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Year of first release: 2013
Director: Carolin Link
Actors: Ulrich Tukur, Samuel Schneider, Hafsia Herzi
Country: D
Genre: Drama
Conditions of visioning: 29.10.2013, Schauburg
Synopsis: Troubled teenager Ben (16) unintentionally confronts his father Heinrich, a successful German theatre director staging a play in Marrakesh, with his past and his neglected responsibilities. After a falling out with his estranged father, Ben loses himself in the shadowy Medina and sleazy nightclubs of Marrakesh, where he meets a feisty Berber girl Karima and follows her to her hometown, far beyond the city and across unfamiliar and barren land. She helps him gain the courage to stand up to his father.
Review: The story is a classical coming-to-age movie combined this time with a road movie in order to show nice views, as Carolin Link likes to. The acting and the directing have nothing special and are quite flat, but the background of the image is nice. The souk in Marrakech, the desert, the gardens. The movie is entertaining, but does not move me at all. 
Rating: 4 /10

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