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Raja (2003)

Director: Jacques Doillon

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From Time Out Film Guide

Doillon's excellent and surprising film describes with considerable subtlety the sexual attraction of a well to do Frenchman living in Marrakesh towards a local orphan girl. Greggory gives a carefully calibrated performance as the middle aged Pierre Louÿs-quoting lothario ('I'm abject!' he lazily declares), and Benssallem, as his not spectacularly beautiful object of fascination, poignantly expresses the disturbing nature of the contradictory emotional pulls and social and economic pressures acting upon her. What distinguishes Raja is how Doillon's nurturing of spontaneous performances, alongside a keen sensitivity to cultural differences, linguistic, social and sexual, help the film to develop from a languorous essay on amour fou to an even more interesting, humanistic analysis of the sad barriers to mutual expression and communication we erect - or fall prey to.

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Time Out Film Guide

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    Posted on Oct 20 2008 22:36 Beautiful film starring the exotically attractive and talented young actress Najat Benssallem. She won awards for her performance but despite this fact she seems to have dropped out of sight. I hope everything is well with her. I think she deserves more oppotunities to display her natural abilities as a gifted young actress.
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Cast & crew

Director: Jacques Doillon

Producer: Bénédicte Bellocq, Souad Lamriki, Margaret Ménégoz

Cast: Pascal Greggory, Najat Benssallem, Hassan Khissal, Ilham Abdelwahed, Ahmed Akensouss, Oum El Aid Ait Youss, Zineb Ouchita, Fatiha Khoulaki full cast

Duration: 112 mins


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