La prière de l'absent (1995)
- Directed by
- Hamid Benani
- Genre
- comedy, drama
- Country
- Morocco
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A man returns to his rural village in Morocco to confront a past tragedy. The story follows his journey through memory and loss across a landscape of poverty and change.
solemnslow-burnmelancholiccontemplativegroundedhauntingreflectivemeditative
What happens
The Absent's Prayer (Arabic: صلاة الغيب, French: La prière de l'absent) is a 1995 Moroccan film. It is an adaptation by director Hamid Bénani, of the novel of the same name by Tahar Ben Jelloun. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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