Rome Rather Than You
| Rome Rather Than You | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Tariq Teguia |
| Written by | Tariq Teguia |
| Produced by | Helge Albers Cati Couteau Tariq Teguia Yacine Teguia |
| Starring | Samira Kaddour Rachid Amrani |
| Cinematography | Hacène Ait Kaci Nasser Medjkane |
| Edited by | Andrée Davanture Rodolphe Molla |
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Running time | 111 minutes |
| Countries | Algeria France Germany |
| Language | Arabic |
Roma wa la n'toura (English: Rome Rather Than You; French: Rome plutôt que vous) is a 2006 Algerian-French-German drama film directed by Tariq Teguia,[2] starring Samira Kaddour and Rachid Amrani as two young people who seek to leave Algeria and the Algerian Civil War behind for a brighter future.[3] This is Teguia's feature film directorial debut.[4] (He had previously made a few shorts and a 2002 documentary.[5]) The film won the Special Jury Award at the 2007 Fribourg International Film Festival.[6]
Plot
[edit]Twenty-year-old Kamel and his friend, twenty-three-year-old Zina, search Algiers for human trafficker Bosco to obtain forged passports so they can leave the country for Rome.
Reception
[edit]Variety magazine critic Robert Koehler praised "Tariq Teguia’s highly accomplished debut ... Although the final moments are foreseeable, both the getting there and the immediate aftermath show Teguia to be a director of major promise".[4] Koehler also approved of the "naturalistic, easygoing perfs [performances]" of Kaddoui and Amrani.[4] In Slant Magazine, however, Eric Henderson considered the film to be "arrogantly conceived, pretentiously executed, and petulantly protracted".[7]
Cast
[edit]- Samira Kaddour as Zina
- Rachid Amrani as Kamel
- Ahmed Benaissa as The policeman
- Kader Affak as Malek
- Lali Maloufi as Merzak
- Moustapha Benchaïb as Mahmoud
- Khaddra Boudedhane as Zina's mother
- Rabbie Azzabi as Young man in sportswear
- Fethi Ghares as Young man in working overalls
References
[edit]- ^ Camillo De Marco. "Geopolitics according to Tariq Teguia in Inland". cineuropa.org.
- ^ "Roma wa la n'touma". Library of Congress.
- ^ "Rome Rather Than You". International Film Festival Rotterdam.
- ^ a b c Robert Roehler (21 March 2007). "Rome Rather Than You". Variety.
- ^ "Tariq Teguia at IFFR". International Film Festival Rotterdam.
- ^ "Friborg: Success of the 21st Friborg International Film Festival". www.cath.ch.
- ^ Eric Henderson (13 March 2007). "Review: Rome Rather Than You". Slant Magazine.
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