Masquerades (film)

Masquerades
Masquerades
Directed by	Lyes Salem
Screenplay by	Lyes Salem, Nathalie Saugeon
Produced by	Dharamsala
Starring	Lyes Salem, Sarah Reguieg, Mohamed Bouchaïb, Rym Takoucht
Cinematography	Pierre Cottereau
Edited by	Florence Ricard
Music by	Mathias Duplessy
Release date	2008
Running time	92'
Countries	Algeria; France

Masquerades (مسخرة) is a 2008 film directed by Lyes Salem.^[1]

Synopsis

A village in Algiers. Proud and a bluffer, Mounir wishes to be admired by all, but he has a weakness: His sister, Rym, who falls asleep anywhere. One night on the way back from the city, and quite inebriated, he shouts out to all and sunder that a rich businessman has asked for his sister’s hand. By the next morning, he’s the envy of all. Trapped by his own lie, Mounir changes his family’s destiny.

Cast

Mounir (Lyes Salem) - Habiba's husband, and Rym's older brother
Rym (Sarah Reguieg) - Mounir's sister and object of Khliffa's affection
Khliffa (Mohamed Bouchaïb) - Mounir’s best friend, in love with Rym
Habiba (Rym Takoucht) - Mounir's wife
Amine (Merouane Zmirli) - Mounir and Habiba's boy
Rédouane Lamouchi (Mourad Khan) - businessman and conman

Awards

Fespaco 2009 (Burkina Faso)
Festival Francophone de Namur 2008 (Bélgium)
Festival Francophone d’Angoulême 2008 (France)
Dubai International Film Festival 2008

References

^ Global Film Discussion Guide - Masquerades (pdf) "In the scene where Mounir, dressed in an elegant suit, accompanies new best friends Rédouane and Hamza on a trip out of town to scam a pair of gullible shepherds out of their money, our sympathies are drawn to the innocent shepherds immediately, in part by use of a tight close-up that fills the screen entirely with the sincere and modest face of one of the two men. We also get a reverse-shot of Rédouane in close-up, but by contrast, Rédouane wears a phony, ingratiating expression. Despite his proximity, he’s at a further distance from our sympathies, as it were, as if ripe for more critical inspection and evaluation by the audience."

African Film Festival of Cordoba-FCAT (license CC BY-SA-3.0)
Masquerades at IMDb

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[1] Global Film Discussion Guide - Masquerades (pdf) "In the scene where Mounir, dressed in an elegant suit, accompanies new best friends Rédouane and Hamza on a trip out of town to scam a pair of gullible shepherds out of their money, our sympathies are drawn to the innocent shepherds immediately, in part by use of a tight close-up that fills the screen entirely with the sincere and modest face of one of the two men. We also get a reverse-shot of Rédouane in close-up, but by contrast, Rédouane wears a phony, ingratiating expression. Despite his proximity, he’s at a further distance from our sympathies, as it were, as if ripe for more critical inspection and evaluation by the audience."

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