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Wed, Feb 11, 2009
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Thu, Feb 12, 2009
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DIRECTOR: AHMED EL MAANOUNI
MOROCCO
The contradictions of Moroccan society--culturally vibrant and playful, yet stiflingly traditional and patriarchal--are viewed with bemusement in writer-director Ahmed El Maanouni's unique take on the melancholy truism, "You can't go home again." Having escaped the tumult and tension of his birthplace a decade ago, young architect Amin hesitantly returns to Fez when he learns that his overbearing uncle is on his deathbed. Long-dormant resentments surface, and Amin must reconcile his family ties with the hard-won independence of adulthood. Shot in luminous black and white and scored with evocative Moroccan folk music, Burned Hearts--like the Sufi philosopher whose ruminations bookend the story--is wise to the painful, wondrous complexities of life. This year's Moroccan submission for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. ( 84 min )
Selected Filmography: Oh the Days! (78), Transes (81), Moroccan Goumiers (93).
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