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Two new arab films reviewed, "LUST", (Egypt) and "DEATH FOR SALE" (Morocco)by Alex Deleon Moroccan Director Faouzi Bensaidi as the sadistic cop Daggat in his own film "Death For Sale" DEATH FOR SALE, (Baya al-Mawyt) Morocco 2011 directed with a nonstop verve by Faouzi Bensaidi is another dark film also set in a seaside North African city, Tetouan, near Gibraltar. It starts out a bit like Fellini's Vitelloni --focusing on three young buddies -- very much losers with no future whose main source of income is purse snatching in broad daylight. However, Allal, the hardened leader of the three has plans to break into the drug rackets which seem to be the lynchpin of Tetouan's economy. The main character is Malik, a slighty more sensitive dude who has fallen madly in love with a local prostitute, Dounia (Miss "World"). Here some very erotic bedroom scenes as she caresses his bare back with her bare breasts. The third member of this low class trio is Soufiane who suddenly gets religion and becomes a burden to the other two who have no time for his fundamentalist blatherings. Aside from Malik, the most sympathetic character in the tale is Dounia, who has fallen in love with Malik as well and becomes very protective of him. The most sinister character of all is police Inspector Daggat, played by none other than director Bansaidi himself --in a most unsavory role! He forces Malik to become a police informer (snitch) in return for which he lets Dunia out of jail and even has them set up together in a little hotel which becomes their love nest. But we know that when he's good and ready he will surely betray them. When Allal returns from hiding out in the mountains to plan a Jewelery store heist that will presumably put all three on easy street, the shit starts hitting the fan. The last part of the film is the botched heist with only Malik barely escaping with the loot, and heading off to meet Dounia at the train station to flee to another city (Marrakesh) and another life. It looks like we may be headed for a happy ending until, with the cops hot on Malik's tail, she offers to hide the money under her clothing and retires to the ladies room. When she fails to reappear Malik finds that she has absconded with the loot and left him high and dry -- a bit like Jean Seaberg the anti-heroine of Godard's Breathless. Malik is devastated and walks out of the station as the police close in and he is left hanging upside down in the last frame of the picture as the camera itself does a headstand. All in all a pretty bleak study of young people in a ruthless society that have nowhere to go but straight to hell. 24.10.2012 | Editor's blog Cat. : actress Al Shooq Alex Deleon Alexandria Allal Assistant Bansaidi Business Business CAIRO CDATA Daggat DEATH FOR SALE dialysis Director Dounia Earth Egypt Egyptian Cinema Entertainment Entertainment Faouzi Bensaïdi Faouzi Bensaïdi Fehd Benchemsi inspector International relations Jean Seaberg Khaled El Hagar leader LUST Mediterranean Member states of La Francophonie Member states of the Arab League Member states of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation Member states of the Union for the Mediterranean Member states of the United Nations Morocco Oscars Person Attributes Person Career Political geography Sawsan Badr Tetouan the 2011 Cairo Film Festival Youssef Chahine FILM
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