In Moroccan Chronicles, set in the ancient city of Fez, a working class mother, abandoned by her husband who has emigrated to Europe, tells three tales to her just-circumcised ten-year-old son. In the first, Smihi re-stages the Marrakech market scene from Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much, in which a monkey trainer makes children dance for tourists. In the second, two lovers meet on the ramparts of Orson Welles’s Essaouira locations for Othello and speak of their own forbidden love. And in the third, set in Smihi’s home town of Tangier, an old sailor dreams of vanquishing a sea monster: the Gibraltar ferry that connects Europe to Africa.
Moumen Smihi
Director, Writer
Aïcha Mahmah
Tarik Jamil
Miloud Habachi
Soumaya Akaaboune
Ahmed S. Soussi
Mohamed Timoud
Casablanca81%
Morocco63%
The Wind and the Lion64%
Around the World in 80 Days66%
The Three Musketeers63%
Safe Haven72%
Blood Diamond75%
Queen of the Desert58%
Stillwater66%
The Count of Monte Cristo76%
The Little Hours58%
The Jewel of the Nile62%
Jamaica Inn61%
The Three Musketeers67%
Lonely Planet61%
The Physician73%
Brideshead Revisited62%
Hideous Kinky60%
Poor Things76%
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer73%
