Mimosas (2016)
- Original title
- ميموزا
- Directed by
- Óliver Laxe
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- Morocco, France, Spain
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Rating
- 6.2 of 10 from 34 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A group of travelers guides a dying sheikh through remote mountain passes in North Africa to reach his burial site. Their journey across harsh landscapes tests their faith and endurance amid shifting loyalties.
slow-burnmeditativebleakausterespiritualcontemplativevisually starkminimalist
What happens
Mimosas is a 2016 drama film directed and co-written by Oliver Laxe, described by Laxe as 'a Religious Western'. The film is a co-production between Spain, Morocco, France and Qatar. It was screened in the Critics' Week section at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Nespresso Grand Prize. The film shares some footage with Ben Rivers's The Sky Trembles and the Earth is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers and an installation by Artangel that accompanied it: Rivers's film portrays a high-handed Western film-maker working in North Africa, and uses footage of the making of Mimosas. In the assessment of Jonathan Romney, 'this is partly a consummate figures-in-a-landscape study, with characters – and their accompanying mules – often merging into the vastness of a varied, but usually profoundly inhospitable landscape. But the cast makes striking use of non-professionals, and Laxe has an unerring eye for faces that tell a story.' (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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