Tlamess (2019)

Original title

طلامس

Directed by

Ala Eddine Slim

Genre

drama film

Country

Tunisia, France

Runtime

1h 57m

Rating

4.7 of 10 from 11 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A soldier gets a week of leave after his mother dies. He uses the time to pursue a different goal.

meditativeenigmaticatmosphericcontemplativebleakslow-burncerebralintrospective

What happens

Tlamess, is a 2019 Tunisian narrative drama film directed by Ala Eddine Slim and co-produced by director himself with Juliette Lepoutre and Pierre Menahem. The film stars Abdullah Miniawy, Souhir Ben Amara, and Khaled Ben Aïssa. The film tells the story of a soldier, who is granted one week's leave after the death of his mother, but he had another target to complete. The film premiered at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. It showed in theatres in France starting on 19 February 2020. The film received mixed reviews from critics and screened in many film festivals. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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