The Blue Caftan
LGBTQ+ Voices
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2h 2m
Leaving December 1
Directed by Maryam Touzani | 122 mins | 2022
An ostensibly happy couple becomes unmoored when they hire a young apprentice for their caftan store in this layered, elegantly sensuous drama by Maryam Touzani, awarded the Cannes Un Certain Regard FIPRESCI Prize. Having long confined his homosexuality to fleeting bathhouse encounters, husband Halim (Saleh Bakri) is unprepared for the forbidden attraction blossoming between him and Youssef (Ayoub Missioui)—also palpable to wife Mina, a character given poignant depths by Lubna Azabal (Incendies, 2010).
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