“A caftan must be survived by the one who wears it. Passed from mother to daughter. Stand the test of time,” we’re informed in a brand new trailer for Maryam Touzani’s “The Blue Caftan.” The drama is Morocco’s choose within the International Oscar race and focuses on Mina (Lubna Azabal) and Halim (Saleh Bakri), a married couple who run a standard caftan retailer in Morocco. To sustain with buyer calls for, they rent Youssef (Ayoub Missioui), a gifted apprentice who’s studying about embroidery and tailoring from Halim.
It’s not lengthy earlier than Halim and Youssef kind an intense connection, and it’s removed from platonic. The spot depicts the lads wanting admiringly at each other’s our bodies. The movie’s synopsis reveals that Mina slowly “realizes how much her husband is moved by the presence of the young man.”
Touzani, who made her function debut with 2019’s “Adam,” has stated that “The Blue Caftan” is “above all a film about love, about the freedom to be who you are, to love who you want to love.”
“The Blue Caftan” opens in theaters February 10. The movie received the FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes final yr.