Beach Café

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Beach Café (2001)

Directed by Benoît Graffin

Comedy, Drama · 1h 23m

Driss is a jack-of-all trades type who sells fish from his car and moves furniture from one end of his hometown Tangiers to the other. His girlfriend is a free-spirited and wealthy European lass who runs an antique shop. One day, Driss becomes fascinated with Fouad, an old man who runs a rundown café by the beach. Fouad disdains his fellow Moroccans, calling them lazy, preferring the company of Europeans -- particularly, as Driss later learns -- young European women. Always on the make, Driss offers Fouad a business proposition -- to revamp his establishment and turn it into a proper restaurant with Driss as his business partner. He is later shocked and hurt to learn that Fouad starts to remodel his business but without Driss. Sending out his friends as spies, Driss learns a number of unsettling things about his would-be associate.

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Cast

Crew

Director
Benoît Graffin
Writer
Benoît Graffin, André Téchiné
Novel
Mohammed Mrabet
Director of Photography
Yorick Le Saux
Original Music Composer
Philippe Miller
Editor
Camille Cotte
Producer
Cyriac Auriol, Pauline Duhault

Details

Original title
Café de la plage
Release date
2001-01-01
Runtime
1h 23m
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Original language
FR
Spoken languages
English, Arabic, French
Countries
France
Production
Cinételéma, Elia Films, Les Films du Requin