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COMMUNITY RATING
Morocco: the outskirts of Marrakech. Frédéric is a well-to-do Westerner, a cynical nobody who is emotionally lost, and living in aimless luxury. She, Raja, is a nineteen-year-old orphan. She doesn't believe that life can suddenly change for the better. She only wants to survive, but she wants to do it honestly. All he wants to do is seduce her. Raja knows all too well that he is only interested in having fun, and will drop her once he has. And she knows all about abandonment. All the same, she desperately wants to believe in him. So starts this story of domination and submission, of an odd couple separated by class and language; two unequal halves of a human comedy. Jacques Doillon, director of Ponette, tries his hand at a romantic thriller but refuses to bow to the cliché of the mysterious east, while imbuing the film with a certain sensual frenzy. Two human beings, each in their own cell of survival, trying to connect in a relationship shaped by culture and economic inequality.
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