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The Blue Caftan (2023)

Feb 10, 2023 Drama, Romance 2h 2m
73%
User Score
7.5/10
96%
83/100

Overview

A middle-aged tailor and his wife find their relationship challenged by the arrival of a handsome new apprentice.

Maryam Touzani
Director

Top Billed Cast

Lubna Azabal
Lubna Azabal

Mina
Saleh Bakri
Saleh Bakri

Halim
Ayoub Messioui
Ayoub Messioui

Youssef
Zakaria Atifi
Zakaria Atifi

Bachir
Mounia Lamkimel
Mounia Lamkimel

Blue Caftan Client
Abdelhamid Zoughi
Abdelhamid Zoughi

Doctor
Fatima Hilal
Fatima Hilal

Boutique Customer
Mariam Lalouaz
Mariam Lalouaz

Boutique Customer
Kholoud El Ouehabi
Kholoud El Ouehabi

Boutique Customer

Full Cast & Crew

Media

The Blue Caftan | Official Trailer HD | Strand Releasing
The Blue Caftan | Official Trailer HD | Strand Releasing
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Reviews

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A review by CinemaSerf
Written on May 15, 2023

"Halim" (Saleh Bakri) lives with his ailing wife "Mina" (Lubna Azabal) and together they run a small tailoring business. Now he is a master craftsman, everything is measured, cut and stitched by hand - a fairly labour intensive and time consuming process. To help meet the demands of his impatient customers, he has acquired an handsome apprentice "Youssef" (Ayoub Missioui) who takes a keen interest in his work and demonstrates an aptitude that is increasingly appreciated by "Halim". What's also fairly obvious is that both men are attracted to each other and we now embark on a rather delicate triangle in which the two men - entirely platonically - develop their relationship under the watchful gaze of his wife whom we suspect suspects, but... It's a very gently paced film this, allowing the t...

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A review by RedaX*
Written on March 5, 2024

Very mediocre and not a step-up from Meryam Touzani's first feature which was also an okay film. The relationship between the three main characters wasn't dynamic or memorable.

The moments when the film was trying to go deep with the relationship of the characters or their past didn't bring us closer to the characters.

And I have to say that Loubna Azabal and Saleh Bakri Moroccan dialect isn't compelling and it was a barrier between us - the audience - and the characters....

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