What a Wonderful World

Feature film screening as part of the Arab Film Festival

Saturday, November 03, 2007
9:30 PM - 11:30 PM
Writer's Guild Theater
135 South Doheny Drive

Reminiscent of Wong Kar-wai and Quentin Tarantino, Moroccan director Faouzi Bensaidi is a master of mood, style and playful genre-mashing. In this hip, dark comedy, we meet Kamel (Faouzi Bensaidi), a professional assassin, Kenza (Nezha Rahil), a morose traffic cop, her best friend/occasional prostitute Souad (Fatima Attif), and Hicham (El Mehdi Elaaroubi), an Internet hacker. As their lives become slowly intertwined, Bensaidi paints a delicious portrait of a Casablanca filled with love, murder and mystery. In this second feature by director Faouzi Bensaidi (One Thousand Months), a latent malaise and alienation underlies the stylized and choreographed scenes.

Director: Faouzi Bensaidi

Morocco, 2006, 90 minutes

This screening is part of the Arab Film Festival. For details on the festival, please visit www.aff.org

Cost: $10.00 general admission, $8.00 students/seniors

Special Instructions

This film is being shown together with the short film The Deceased and the ticket price includes both films.

Sponsor(s): , Arab Film Festival