Lumières

At a glance

Lumières, is a 1989 Algerian movie, directed by Jean-Pierre Lledo, and starring Mohamed Fellag, Mustapha El Anka, Yahia Benmabrouk. with a runtime of 110 minutes.

Overview

Long quest for a director specializing in commissioned films, who after a depression rediscovers his loved ones, his Casbah district, himself. Taken in hand, for a while, by his Islamist neighbor, it is above all the meeting with an old projectionist giving him a censored history of cinema and Algeria, which helps him to change, and to accept his own fantasies, embodied by Marilyn Monroe and the Andalusian.

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