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Article: Le Grand Voyage.(Movie Review)
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- New Internationalist
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- October 1, 2005
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Le Grand Voyage
written and directed by Ismael Ferroukhi
Reda and his father are driving to Mecca. The father, a Moroccan settled in France, is solemnly making the haj before he's too old. Reda is irreligious, and resents his father's demands--not least because he's had to miss his college finals. Reda has little in the way of compensation. He desperately misses his girlfriend, but his father--we never learn his name--throws away his mobile phone. Neither will his father allow stops in the cities en route--they aren't tourists, he says. Neither understands the other, and they have little to say.
But they have a lot to learn and Le Grand Voyage ...