http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3094888341148087511

Marock is the story of a 17 year old girl Moroccan girl, Rita, who falls in love with Youri, a Jewish boy. Rita, just like her boyfriend, is part of the Moroccan upper social class,and comes from a very liberal, non-religious family; although only as liberal as Moroccan culture and social norms allows one to be. Although religion is not a social barrier in the daily interaction of Jews and Muslims(the movie shows close friendships between both groups), it becomes a barrier and a taboo when it comes to dating between both religions.

The movie clearly depicts the social criticisms that arise from both parties as a result of this situation. Laila Marrakchi's movie successfully points out all the unexpressed and taboo aspects of the Moroccan high class society, portraying the everday life of these teenagers, that is depicted with a surprisingly incredible accuracy, both on the Jewish and Muslim side.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e2/Marock.jpg

I think it was a good initiative, and something different that others had not dared. While it was a blast and got amazing number of audience, I think the movie is overrated.

I think the scenario was nothing great. the ending especially was pretty expedient, and did not engage in a deep enough message or moral.
I feel that after watching the movie there was no msg that I kept.

Moi non plus je n'ai pas aimé la fin, ça faisait un peu film à l'eau de rose

Actually the movie didn't have a message to tell, it was kind of a autobiography , the good part is that it reflects the real life of the rich guys who study in french schools, then many people could see themselves in that movie.
but i was dissapointed by sexual scenes which were very hard in my point of view and didn't add anything to the movie. i think the director did it in purpose to create some noise about it, that can be used for it's promotion.
and this tactic is done more more to promote movies specialy in muslim countries

I agree, I do beleive that the movie lacks a strong plot; however, the lighting, sound, picture, PP, etc... were really good, also, it is worth noting that most of the actors arent actually professionals. The movie also does make many generalizations about life of kids in french schools; its not all like that.

Casa if the movie was about love, it's logical there were some sexual scenes on it...

i agree with you auton, but there were some exageration, that moroccans are not aquainted with and that i think personally will not add much to the movie.
like a scene where a guy is ahaving sex with a prostitute, they could show they enter to the room and begin to get naked and that s it, but in the movie they went beyond, they include the action going on with sounds and the concversations that's goes with it, i think that is just to sockpeople, and they are other examples


abdellah i think it is not a generalisation , lot of what was in the movie reflects the reality not only of kids who goes to french school , but a way of life of many bourgoie kids, of some issues like not fasting ramadan is not to be generalised but all the other stuff i can say is general

I agree with you all about the plot problems. I think that the initiative is good, since people should be allowed to produce whatever they want.

I also think that the number of people that actually live that way are very minority in society. I mean seriously, and by the end of the movie all you got out of it is the bragging out and showing off.
The polemic that was caused by the movie just created more publicity for it.

i agree with you auton, but there were some exageration, that moroccans are not aquainted with and that i think personally will not add much to the movie.
like a scene where a guy is ahaving sex with a prostitute, they could show they enter to the room and begin to get naked and that s it, but in the movie they went beyond, they include the action going on with sounds and the concversations that's goes with it, i think that is just to sockpeople, and they are other examples

Hmmm... I think I know what you mean, Casa. Well, in Spain we're used to seeing that kind of sexual scenes (actually Spanish and European movies in general show sexual scenes in a much more explicit way than US movies), but if people aren't used to it in Morocco, and the plot didn't really require such scenes, maybe you're right and the director was just looking for controversy.

Hmmm... I think I know what you mean, Casa. Well, in Spain we're used to seeing that kind of sexual scenes (actually Spanish and European movies in general show sexual scenes in a much more explicit way than US movies), but if people aren't used to it in Morocco, and the plot didn't really require such scenes, maybe you're right and the director was just looking for controversy.

I think many Spanish movies exaggerate and abuse on the use of sex... at least homosexual one.
All the movies by Almodovar that I have seen need to show somethinge ext dramatic about homosexuality/ travesty.
All about my mother I though was a great movie, but after seeng his other ones I thought he exploited the theme of homosexuality alot.
I know that it would be an extremely unacceptable in American society.
example: Alexander's homosexuality doomed the movie to very small profit margins than expected.