Rome Rather Than You Explained

Rome Rather Than You
Director:Tariq Teguia
Producer:Helge Albers
Cati Couteau
Tariq Teguia
Yacine Teguia
Starring:Samira Kaddour
Rachid Amrani
Cinematography:Hacène Ait Kaci
Nasser Medjkane
Editing:Andrée Davanture
Rodolphe Molla
Studio:Neffa Films
Institut national de l'audiovisuel
Flying Moon Filmproduktion
Released:[1]
Runtime:111 minutes
Country:Algeria
France
Germany
Language:Arabic

Roma wa la n'toura (English: Rome Rather Than You; French: Rome plutôt que vous) is a 2006 Algerian-French-German drama film directed by Tariq Teguia,[2] starring Samira Kaddour and Rachid Amrani as two young people who seek to leave Algeria and the Algerian Civil War behind for a brighter future.[3] This is Teguia's feature film directorial debut.[4] (He had previously made a few shorts and a 2002 documentary.[5]) The film won the Special Jury Award at the 2007 Fribourg International Film Festival.[6]

Plot

Twenty-year-old Kamel and his friend, twenty-three-year-old Zina, search Algiers for human trafficker Bosco to obtain forged passports so they can leave the country for Rome.

Reception

Variety magazine critic Robert Koehler praised "Tariq Teguia’s highly accomplished debut ... Although the final moments are foreseeable, both the getting there and the immediate aftermath show Teguia to be a director of major promise".[4] Koehler also approved of the "naturalistic, easygoing perfs [performances]" of Kaddoui and Amrani.[4] In Slant Magazine, however, Eric Henderson considered the film to be "arrogantly conceived, pretentiously executed, and petulantly protracted".[7]

Cast

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Geopolitics according to Tariq Teguia in Inland . Camillo De Marco . cineuropa.org.
  2. Web site: Roma wa la n'touma . Library of Congress.
  3. Web site: Rome Rather Than You . International Film Festival Rotterdam.
  4. Rome Rather Than You . Robert Roehler . 21 March 2007 . Variety.
  5. Web site: Tariq Teguia at IFFR . International Film Festival Rotterdam.
  6. Web site: Friborg: Success of the 21st Friborg International Film Festival . www.cath.ch.
  7. Review: Rome Rather Than You . Eric Henderson . 13 March 2007 . Slant Magazine.