Beach Café

01/01/2001

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1hr 23min

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Comedy

,Drama

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Ouassini Embarek
  • Jacques Nolot
  • Leïla Belarbi
  • Delia Amrani
  • Meriem Serbah

    Director

  • André Téchiné

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Cinételéma
  • Elia Films
  • Les Films du Requin

    Production Countries

  • France

LANGUAGES

  • Arabic
  • English
  • French