

Driss is a jack-of-all trades type who sells fish from his car and moves furniture from one end of his hometown Tangiers to the other. His girlfriend is a free-spirited and wealthy European lass who runs an antique shop. One day, Driss becomes fascinated with Fouad, an old man who runs a rundown café by the beach. Fouad disdains his fellow Moroccans, calling them lazy, preferring the company of Europeans -- particularly, as Driss later learns -- young European women. Always on the make, Driss offers Fouad a business proposition -- to revamp his establishment and turn it into a proper restaurant with Driss as his business partner. He is later shocked and hurt to learn that Fouad starts to remodel his business but without Driss. Sending out his friends as spies, Driss learns a number of unsettling things about his would-be associate.
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The original title is "Café de la plage" (FR).
The runtime is 83 minutes (1h 23m).
The film features dialogue in 3 languages: English, Arabic, French.
The film was directed by Benoît Graffin.
The screenplay was written by Benoît Graffin and André Téchiné.
The score was composed by Philippe Miller.
Cinematography was handled by Yorick Le Saux.
This title is listed on IMDb as tt0276837.
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Café de la plage
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English, العربية, Français
France