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Marrakech (2006)
It's worth the trip to Marrakech
I bought this film about a year ago and have watched it several times, enjoying it on different levels with each successive viewing. I have shown it on dinner/movie nights to my more discriminating friends. Marrakech is not a film for the passive observer, but rather asks its audience to actively engage in its meticulously plotted odyssey. "In this game there are no rules," one of the characters explains, and this might also be said of the film itself. It moves engagingly non-linearly through time and place. I found the film mysterious and exotic and so when Calla, a photographer and the seductive model in her own photography, yearns for a more exotic backdrop for her work and hopes to find it in Marrakech, I thought it ironic. If you like car chases and cliché this film is not for you, but if you crave intelligent tension and purposeful film Marrakech is just the ticket.