Bloody Beans

At a glance

Bloody Beans, is a 2013 Algerian movie, directed by Narimane Mari, and starring Adlane Aïssani, Amir Nourine, Bilal Azil. with a runtime of 77 minutes.

Overview

Bloody Beans (Loubia Hamra) is the debut feature from Algerian director Narimane Mari, a film of rare grace that begins on a sunlit beach where children play, squabble, and doze — before inexplicably transitioning into a game of war that spirals out of control. Shot at the unpredictable rhythms of a child's imagination, Mari draws on the memory of the Algerian War of Independence without ever naming it directly, allowing the children's feverish make-believe to become an oblique and poetic re-enactment of national trauma. Time stretches and warps, moving through choreographed shadows of conflict and the nighttime explosion of a cemetery like a waking dream full of portents. Neither Lord of the Flies nor La Guerre des boutons, Loubia Hamra is a wholly original work — a lyrical, unsettling meditation on history, play, and the weight of the past on the young.

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