Nothing happens or all the same happens again and again so you're trying to follow a pseudo thriller which isn't one and suddenly it fizzles out! The setting is the same,oppressing ,always in the same construction site. There are a few main characters who hardly talk to one another and at one moment we think there is a clue but it leads to nowhere. It could have been a short film since the length doesn't provide any more information but boredom. Actually, the trailer is largely enough since everything is in it. I was definetly disappointed and the trailer is just a fraud. It is not a thriller at all as it was sold.
3 Reviews
Excellent (NO SPOILERS)
aamirbilal15 July 2023
The film rests on two things. Stunning visual cinematography where every scene is a painting. How every piece of architecture and characters are arranged makes the viewer pulled in. The second is a story. At times it starts to make one mixed reality with a supernatural. As the story unfolds, real and unreal mix into the reality. Those who like mainstream stuff always find art boring. This film is art. This film stays on your mind long after the film ends. The actors did justice. The pace of the story is not slow. The speed of the story itself is the tool to tell the story. Most of the film happens at night with the ending at the day which itself is a meaning for those who can appreciate art. 10/10.
Enigmatic, supernatural, dark, meditative
edmundyoung2 June 2024
Warning: Spoilers
I loved this film. I can understand why some people were not so keen. It leaves a lot of open questions, rather than resolving neatly. The incompleteness of the buildings in Tunis where most of the action takes place is mirrored in the narrative. If one allows oneself to be drawn in to the place, the atmosphere, the people, and the disturbing things happening in the city, it is a deeply engaging and thought provoking journey.
The themes are dark and disturbing, the mystery revolving around charred remains of people having burned to death, and films shared on phones of self immolations happening in the city. It feels at first like it will be a classic detective thriller, but reveals itself as a supernatural story, a piece of magical realism.
The direction is beautiful and intense, blending the real and the supernatural, going sometimes into a kind of dreamscape around the frames of unfinished buildings. The music is truly superb. I loved the scenes in the Mosque, also a building still under construction, which for me were very powerful.
This is for me a very original work of art that stays with me long after I finished watching the film.
The themes are dark and disturbing, the mystery revolving around charred remains of people having burned to death, and films shared on phones of self immolations happening in the city. It feels at first like it will be a classic detective thriller, but reveals itself as a supernatural story, a piece of magical realism.
The direction is beautiful and intense, blending the real and the supernatural, going sometimes into a kind of dreamscape around the frames of unfinished buildings. The music is truly superb. I loved the scenes in the Mosque, also a building still under construction, which for me were very powerful.
This is for me a very original work of art that stays with me long after I finished watching the film.
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