There are several movies that have been shot in Casablanca, and each
movie tackles a certain facet of life in the metropolitan city. Regardless of
that, today’s movie concerns itself only with the dark side in the city where far
away from the city lights resides the wretched of the earth. Thus, Casablanca
is only white for those who enjoy a decent life, but it is ‘casanegra’ for Karim
(Anas Elbaz) and Adil ( Omar Lotfi).
Karim and Adil are close friends in their twenties, jobless, and welling
to change their situation with a magical stick. Karim is trying to keep bone
and flesh of his family including his retired ill father. Though, he is in love
from afar with a classy and chic woman who seems to deepen his self-conscious
of his situation. Otherwise, Adil’s dream is to go to Sweden with illegal paper
to escape his miserable situation and save his mother from his psychopath stepfather.
These provocative conditions push the young men to work for a dealer,
Zrirek (Mohamed Benbrahim). Adil seems enthusiastic about the job because he
needs money to realize his dream, whereas Karim suspects Zrirek and he tries to
dissuade Adil from working with him. Afterwards, the mission that Zrirek entrusts
Adil and Karim failed and all their hopes fade away. `
Nour Eddine Lakhmari brings out a forsaken world not only in Casablanca
but the whole country. The people of this world are the menial workers who
spend 8 hours standing for dozens of dirhams. Adil and karim are a good example of guys who are willing to work yet not in the same miserable and inhuman conditions.
Director: Nour Eddine Lakhmari
Genre: Drama
Cast: Anas Elbaz, Omar Lotfi, Mohamed Benbrahime, Ghita Tazi, Driss
Roukhe…
Release: 2008
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