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Exit Marrakech: a story of reconciliation between a father and his teenage son
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Caroline Link, also director of the film Nowhere in Africa, returns to this continent to tell a story of reconciliation between a father and his teenage son. Throughout all the film, the landscape is another protagonist. It enchants the viewer with its colours, shapes, sensuality and exotic places.
Ben is a 17-year-old boy who feels abandoned by his parents. Both of them live from their art, and their constant trips do not allow them to spend with their child all the time he needs. When school is out, Ben travels to Marrakech where Heinrich, his father, is participating in a theatre festival. The lack of communication between father and son leads Ben to go into this labyrinthine city in search of new sensations. There he meets Karima, a girl he falls in love with. They both travel to her hometown, a remote village in the Atlas. Then, Ben will continue his journey through beautiful landscapes, which are the only witnesses and companions in his eager quest of himself. His father, worried about the lack of news from his son, leaves the theatre company and goes to look for him, following the few tracks he has on his possible whereabouts.
Since they meet and stay together, their relationship will become closer. Heinrich will leave his comfortable world and, renouncing his vanity, he will start to understand his son values and customs. In turn Ben, who will save his father's life, will overcome his resentment toward his parents, and finally accept them.
Exit Marrakech is not just a nice tour through the customs and the people of this North African country. It is mainly an elegant way to present the process of a teenager, who is struggling for finding his place in the world and for reaching maturity and self-knowledge.
Texts: Núria Farré. facebook@cinemaperaestudiants.cat
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