Lubna Azabal

Saleh Bakri

Ayoub Messioui

Zakaria Atifi

Mounia Lamkimel

Abdelhamid Zoughi

Fatima Hilal

Mariam Lalouaz

Kholoud El Ouehabi

Amira Tiouli

Hanaa Laidi

Aymane El Oarrari

Ilyass El Ouahdani

Fouzia Ejjawi

Mohamed Naimane

Mohamed Tahri Joutey Hassani

Abdellah Lebkiri

Driss Diouri

Ilham Chakib

Abdelrhafor Essolh

Nourredine Aim

Hassan Boudour

Naima Boudra

Fatima Laaraj

Kahija Toufik

Maryam Touzani

Nabil Ayouch

Virginie Surdej

Samir Abdelmoumen

Santiago R. Cufiño

Amine Benjelloun

Katrin Pors

Miguel Villada

Sahnoun Anass

Nicolas Rumpl

Rajae El Jaouhari

Sebastian Schelenz

Laure Stemmann

Jennifer Courouge

Eva Jakobsen

Ezequiel Pinedo

Adil Ayoub

Mikkel Jersin

Claus Lynge

Laurent Navarri

Kristian Eidnes Andersen

Drama

Romance

أزرق القفطان

Les Films du Nouveau Monde

Ali'n Productions

Velvet Films

Snowglobe

BeTV

RTBF

Belgium

Denmark

France

Morocco

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"Halim" (Saleh Bakri) lives with his ailing wife "Mina" (Lubna Azabal) and together they run a small tailoring business. Now he is a master craftsman, everything is measured, cut and stitched by hand - a fairly labour intensive and time consuming process. To help meet the demands of his impatient customers, he has acquired an handsome apprentice "Youssef" (Ayoub Missioui) who takes a keen interest in his work and demonstrates an aptitude that is increasingly appreciated by "Halim". What's also fairly obvious is that both men are attracted to each other and we now embark on a rather delicate triangle in which the two men - entirely platonically - develop their relationship under the watchful gaze of his wife whom we suspect suspects, but... It's a very gently paced film this, allowing the three strong performances from these on-form character actors to develop slowly and engagingly and though the underpinning issues of sexuality in a country that is still largely unwelcoming is part of the theme, it is not a greater a part than the observation of the couple's happy marriage nor of the creative beauty of the men's skills at creating garments of delicacy and fineness. It's a film about discovery and family and I found it worked really quite well as we navigate a myriad of challenges towards the conclusion that, like the rest of this story, is anything but simple. It's quite observational in nature, so don't expect things to rattle along - they don't, but it draws together threads of lives and choices in as intricate a fashion as any of his creations and is really well worth a watch.

Very mediocre and not a step-up from Meryam Touzani's first feature which was also an okay film. The relationship between the three main characters wasn't dynamic or memorable.

The moments when the film was trying to go deep with the relationship of the characters or their past didn't bring us closer to the characters.

And I have to say that Loubna Azabal and Saleh Bakri Moroccan dialect isn't compelling and it was a barrier between us - the audience - and the characters.

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