Hideous Kinky (1998)

Directed by

Gillies MacKinnon

Genre

drama film

Country

United Kingdom, France

Runtime

1h 38m

Rated

R

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 97 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young English mother takes her two daughters to live in Morocco in the early 1970s. They drift through the country, meeting local people and trying to find their place.

slow-burnsun-drenchedwanderinggentlebittersweetlanguidmeditativeatmospheric

What happens

Hideous Kinky is a 1998 drama film directed by Scottish director Gillies MacKinnon. Based on Esther Freud's semi-autobiographical 1992 novel of the same name, it follows a young English mother who moves from London to Morocco with her two young daughters in the early 1970s. The film stars Kate Winslet and French-Moroccan actor Saïd Taghmaoui. The soundtrack mixes original music with songs from the 1960s, including tracks from Canned Heat, Richie Havens, and The Incredible String Band. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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