Variety Critics’ Choice: Europe Now! 2004 / Shouf shouf habibi! / Netherlands 2004
Amsterdam-set comedy centred on a family of Moroccan immigrants, one of whose sons is a hopelessly confused slacker.
Both laughs and pathos are milked from the ups and downs of keeping home and hearth together in a foreign land in Shouf shouf habibi! Broad comedic strokes and cross-cultural issues leaven the overplotted story of a Moroccan brood coping in contempo Holland, which may explain pic´s record-setting opening weekend in late January. Twenty-year-old Abdullah, or Ab (Mimoun Oaissa), doesn´t know what he´ll do for a living: when an office job doesn´t pan out, he participates in a bank robbery with a trio of chums that goes spectacularly wrong. No-holds-barred humor includes a bit where Ab´s convinced he can become an American movie star because post-9/11 Hollywood will be looking for Middle Eastern talent. Perfs are vibrant overall.
Eddie Cockrell
89 min / Color, 35 mm
Director Albert ter Heerdt
/ Screenplay Albert ter Heerdt, Mimoun Oaïssa
/ Dir. of Photography Steve Walker
/ Music Vincent van Warmerdam, Cablejuice, Mike Meijer
/ Editor Sytse Kramer
/ Producer René Huybrechtse, Joram Willink, Frank Bak
/ Production Theorema Films
/ Cast Mimoun Oaïssa, Touriya Haoud, Najib Amhali, Frank Lammers
/ Contact Theorema Films, NonStop Sales AB, EYE Film Institute Netherlands
www: www.shoufshoufhabibi.nl
Theorema Films
Van Hallstraat 52-1, 1051 HH, Amsterdam
Netherlands
Phone: +31 20 688 1843
Fax: +31 20 686 3574
E-mail: [email protected]
NonStop Sales AB
Döbelnsgatan 24, SE 113 52, Stockholm
Sweden
Phone: +46 8 673 9989, +46 8 673 9980
Fax: +46 8 673 9988
E-mail: [email protected]
EYE Film Institute Netherlands
IJpromenade 1, 1031 KT, Amsterdam
Netherlands
Phone: +31 207 582 375
E-mail: [email protected]
Claudia Landsberger
Distributor, Film Institution Rep.
Albert ter Heerdt
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