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Make-Believe Horses (1995)
Directed by Jillali Ferhati
The film focuses on an ill-matched group of individuals who meet up in Tangier, all nursing hopeless dreams of going to Europe: Mohamed to see a horse race, Ali to have an operation to restore his sight, Fatima to rejoin her mother. Mohamed enters a fantasy world, pretending to his wife that he is already in Paris, and steals to pay for his visa. Ferhati creates a suffocating world, reminiscent in some ways of the French poetic realism of the 1930s: the enigmatic blind man, rain-swept and darkened streets, characters prevented from achieving their dreams, the opportunity to escape always in view but always just out of reach.
Cast
Fatima Loukili
Crew
- Director
- Jillali Ferhati
Details
- Original title
- Chevaux de fortune
- Release date
- 1995-01-02
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- Arabic, French
- Countries
- Morocco