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Moroccan Chronicles, is a 1999 Moroccan movie, directed by Moumen Smihi, and starring Aïcha Mahmah, Tarik Jamil, Miloud Habachi. with a runtime of 72 minutes.
Moroccan Chronicles is a richly layered Moroccan film by director Farida Smihi, set in the ancient medina of Fez where a working-class mother — abandoned by her husband who emigrated to Europe — tells three stories to her recently circumcised ten-year-old son. The first tale revisits the iconic Marrakech marketplace scene from Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much, reimagined through a Moroccan lens. The second unfolds in Essaouira among the locations where Orson Welles filmed Othello, as two lovers meet to speak of their forbidden passion. In the third, set in Smihi's home city of Tangier, an aging sailor dreams of conquering the sea monster that is the Gibraltar ferry — the vessel that connects Africa to Europe and represents the enduring pull of emigration. A contemplative triptych on memory, desire, and the weight of geography.
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