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6.6/10   236 votes
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Director:
Jacques Doillon
Writer:
Jacques Doillon (writer)
Contact:
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Release Date:
3 September 2003 (France) more
Genre:
Drama
Plot:
A cross-cultural drama about a wealthy middle-aged Frenchman's yearning for a nineteen year local girl... more | add synopsis
Awards:
3 wins & 2 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(2 articles)
Greggory, Garrel and Julie Depardieu Star in Doillon's 'Aux Quatre Vents'
 (From ioncinema. 7 July 2009)
Bosnian Wins Etoile D'Or at Marrakech
 (From Studio Briefing - Film News. 9 October 2003)
User Comments:
good but drawn out more (5 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Pascal Greggory ... Fred
Najat Benssallem ... Raja
Ilham Abdelwahed ... Nadira
Hassan Khissal ... Youssef
Ahmed Akensouss ... Ahmed
Oum El Aid Ait Youss ... Oum El Aid, la première cuisinière
Zineb Ouchita ... Zineb, la deuxième cuisinière
Fatiha Khoulaki ... Fatiha
Aïcha Aarif ... Jardinière 1
Hajiba Firma ... Jardinière 2
Jmiaa Aarif ... Jardinière 3
Hanane Ben Jaddi ... Fille du bar 1
Samra Ben Arafa ... Fille du bar 2
Samira El Othmani ... Fille du bar 3
Abdellah Lamrani ... Le frère de Raja
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Raja l'Africaine (France) (working title)
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Runtime:
112 min
Country:
France | Morocco
Language:
French | Arabic
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Certification:
Canada:14A (Ontario)
Company:
Les Films du Losange more

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14 out of 21 people found the following comment useful.
good but drawn out, 30 March 2004
6/10
Author: kurtz-1 (kurtz@ziplink.net)

I was really in a mood to see a good foreign film ..having recently seen Distant and The Return and having missed Kitchen Stories and Crimson Gold thta were no longer playing at any NYC theaters. So I read a couple of reviews that were generally favorable to this film and decided to see Raja. The fact that I have been to Morocco and Marrakesh specifically also contributed to my interest in this film. While I thought the film had some merit and did give somewhat of a feeling of the plight of the Moroccan underclass I thought that, overall, it was very drawn out and seemed to prolong or unnecessarily stretch out the plot line of the somewhat bizzarre and seemingly impossible relationship between the Frenchman and Raja. I felt that the relationships between his two "servants" who cooked and cleaned and seemed devoted to him was far more believable (my sense was that they were not professional actos which really seemd to work.) His obsession with young girls, in particular Raja , and his boredom with life was clearly manifested yet it was,again in my opinion belabored and took away from the dramatic flow of the film. The ending, in particular, was also somewhat farfetched and seemed to further distract from the main theme of the film

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