Articles Posted in the " Sami Bouajila " Category

  • Beautiful Lies

    Paying homage to Amélie, Audrey Tautou plays a character with a similar name delivering thick and fast laughs in this quirky tale of deception; but Beautiful Lies holds its own as an original and modern French farce. Formidable!


  • Outside The Law

    On paper, this film looks ruddy good. The story of three brothers torn apart by their part in the Algerian war for independence from French rule – it’s the sort of film that uses the words passion, destiny and tragedy in its promo, a lot. I like that – I’m all for having my heart ripped out and smashed up in front of me. However, despite the heart-breaking, tumultuous relationship between France and Algeria, this film lacks one of its advertised elements – passion.


  • Outside the Law (Hors La Loi)

    Fresh from the Tricycle Theatre’s superb season of Oscar-shortlisted foreign language films comes Outside the Law, an extraordinary portrait of one of the most significant conflicts in recent European history. If you think you’ve made up your mind about terrorists, watch it.