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Saïd Taghmaoui is Ali, an Egyptian student trying to make it as a writer in London. Threatened with deportation, he marries Juliette Lewis, a nightclub Monroe-impersonator and gets entangled with gay photographer Rupert Graves, who offers him a room for just a few artistic magazine shots. And, as a part-time belly-dance instructor, life gets further complicated when he has to fend off the attentions of 40-something pupil Clementine Celarie in Khaled Al Haggar's debut film, a delightfully unusual comedy drama.

Keywords:

Comedy, Drama, Movie, Film, Movies, Films

Additional Information:

(2000) (France / UK) (3 Star)

Cast:

Saïd Taghmaoui	.... Ali
Juliette Lewis	.... Linda
Rupert Graves	.... Mark
Anna Massey	.... Sarah Stevenson
Karim Belkhadra	.... Ahmed
Richard Lumsden	.... Sam

Supporting Cast:

Clémentine Célarié	.... Vivienne
Flaminia Cinque	.... Margreta
Maureen O'Farrell	.... Belly dancer
Nayef Rashed	.... Naief
Badia Obaid	.... Ali's mother
Ramadan Nahyar	.... Ali's sister
Adam El Hagar	.... Ali's brother
Sahar Gadel-Kareem	.... Ali's young sister
Louis Hammond	.... Pedro
Shobu Kapoor	.... Home office official
Chris Langham	.... Mr. Paul
Christopher Simon	.... Dick
Kevin Wainwright	.... Sean
Felix Dexter	.... Policeman

Directors:

Khalid Al-Haggar

Writers:

Khalid Al-Haggar
Amanda McKenzie Stuart