Little sleep...and it's Tuesday.
Dodgeball league in SF:
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Le Grand Voyage
"Winner of Best First Film at the Venice Film Festival last year, this Odyssian tale of inter-generation bonding between a French teenager Reda (Nicolas Cazale) and his father (Mohamed Majd) as they make their pilgrimage from France to Mecca is quite deserving of the accolades it has gathered so far. Apart from the truly magnificant visage of Cazale --- an ethereal hybrid of Aamir Kahn's regality and Gallic seductiveness --- this film also features some truly beautiful moments of quiet humanity.
Coming home on day, Reda was told that he has been appointed to ferry his father across europe and the middle-easten lands to the holy destination of Mecca. All these familial responsibilities in spite of his imminent final exams.
Though the premise is susceptible to charges of being cliche, the way in which director Ismael Ferroukhi paces his story is quite a departure from most road-trip movies before it. Many aspects of the story have been deliberately left unclear and unresolved. Despite such flaccidity, the ending does pack a huge emotional wallop which will no doubt undo the hardest of hearts. Then again, watching gorgeous Cazale on screen does harden other parts of one's physiognomy. Enjoy... "