Lumières

Long quest for a director specializing in commissioned films, who after a depression rediscovers his loved ones, his Casbah district, himself. Taken in hand, for a while, by his Islamist neighbor, it is above all the meeting with an old projectionist giving him a censored history of cinema and Algeria, which helps him to change, and to accept his own fantasies, embodied by Marilyn Monroe and the Andalusian.

Director: Jean-Pierre Lledo

Cast: Mohamed Fellag, Mustapha El Anka, Yahia Benmabrouk, Kaci Tizi Ouzou, René Vautier, Doudja Achachi, Mustapha Preure, Anne Turolla

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.