Information technology'southward a dog-eat-dog world — quite literally at times — in debuting writer-director Kamal Lazraq'due south grungy and realistic Casablanca-fix thriller, Hounds (Les Meutes).
Taking place over one long, increasingly harrowing 24 hours in which a begetter and son try to dispose of a expressionless body, the movie sits somewhere betwixt Cycle Thieves, The Expiry of Mr. Lazarescu and a more standardized criminal offense flick, exploring contemporary Moroccan life through a bare-bones film noir carried by a cast of nonprofessional actors. Impressively executed if a bit of a ane-note affair, Lazraq's kickoff feature should garner some international attending afterwards its Cannes premiere.
Hounds
The Bottom Line Far from Bogart'due south Casablanca.
Venue: Cannes Picture show Festival (United nations Sure Regard)
Bandage: Ayoub Elaid, Abdellatif Masstouri, Mohamed Hmimsa, Abdellah Lebkiri, Lahcen Zaimouzen
Director, screenwriter: Kamal Lazraq
1 hour 34 minutes
A graduate of France'due south prestigious La Fémis moving-picture show school, Lazraq directed an award-winning short, The Man with a Dog (2014), that covered similar footing in his native Casablanca. Far from the luxury of its seaside resorts, he depicted the urban center, or more than like its suburbs, as a gritty, cuththroat metropolis filled with unhinged characters trying to stay afloat.
Hounds is set in the same ruthless hugger-mugger, which we become an early on taste of during an opening dog fight that leaves 1 canine expressionless and its owner, Dib (Abdellah Lebkiri), vowing to take revenge. He decides to hire Hassan (Abdellatif Masstouri), an unemployed homo desperate to earn a cadet, even if that means kidnapping the thug (Mohamed Hmimsa) who killed Dib'due south favorite dog.
Hassan brings his son Issam (Ayoub Elaid) along for the task — i of a series of terrible decisions he makes throughout the film. The 2 pull off the kidnapping simply accidentally impale their captive, and now they accept to get rid of the body earlier dawn.
This is easier said than done in a identify where everyone is trying to turn a profit off the next guy, and where Islamic guidelines call for a body to be washed, wrapped and buried co-ordinate to custom. Past far the less practical of the two, but also the i with more of a spiritual conscience, Hassan tries to follow Muslim precepts while Issam is only trying to get them out of trouble. Their clash is a generational i between religious tradition and youthful ambition, and it nearly tears father and son apart.
Lazraq and cameraman Amine Berrada (who also shot the Senegalese competition film Banel & Adama) runway the 2 from one location to another, whether it'south a desolate junkyard, a farm where they're chased away past locals or a dive bar where they enlist a drunk fisherman (Lahcen Zaimouzen) to help toss the body into the sea.
Even that plan backfires in an almost comic way — indeed, the picture show could accept perhaps benefited from more than night tragicomedy — at which bespeak Issam separates from his begetter and uses contumely tacks so he tin take intendance of business. The third act, which involves a gang state of war and some particularly gruesome details almost discarding a corpse, can grow a bit tiresome, and the relationship between Hassan and Issam, who say very petty to each other, never feels adult enough to warrant our full attending.
There are moments when the motion-picture show uneasily skirts the line between genre conventions and documentary realism, but the portrait it paints of Casablanca's underbelly remains apparent and dour. Every interaction is also a transaction, an endeavor to scrape past in a urban center offering few possibilities to young men like Issam, or to failures similar Hassan. Lazraq's concept is simple but powerful, and he carries it through to the bitter end: In a place where life is a constant fight to survive, even death offers little salvation.
Full credits
Venue: Cannes Motion picture Festival (Un Certain Regard)
Production companies: Mont Fleuri Production, Barney Production, Beluga Tree
Cast: Ayoub Elaid, Abdellatif Masstouri, Mohamed Hmimsa, Abdellah Lebkiri, Lahcen Zaimouzen
Manager, screenwriter: Kamal Lazraq
Producer: Saïd Hamich Benlarbi
Manager of photography: Amine Berrada
Editors: Héloïse Pelloquet, Stéphane Myczkowski
Casting managing director : Amine Louadni
Composer: P.R2B
Sales: Charades
In Standard arabic
1 hour 34 minutes
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