Couscous (La Graine et le Mullet) (12A)

Thursday 3rd September 2009
Abdel Kechiche 2007 - 151 mins
France
Language: French/Arabic/Russian

A tremendous critical success in France, French-Tunisian Kechiche's Couscous is a sprawling yet intimate tale set among the arab working classes of the Mediterranean port Séte.  A complex portrait of an immigrant family, the secret of the grain is an intimate film with many fine performances.

Score:    68.20%

Some members' comments:

What belly dancing!
Excellent acting.
A little unsatisfying, excellent cinematography with the belly dance scene.  Woah!
Good, but too long.  x4
Good until the couscous went missing. Betrayed wife went on and on as did belly dancing.