Yes, there's a period in the title. The filmmaker says all his titles have that. It doesn't "mean" anything. Though I notice that it does make it a complete sentence. So the word becomes an intransitive verb? Hmm.
Trailer:
So if you're making a movie about a guy windsurfing from Morocco to Europe, here's what you've got to work with: the guy gets on his board, he sails for a while and some stuff happens, and he either gets there or he doesn't. There's not a lot of different directions for the plot to take. Even the Odyssey wasn't known for its suspense and I-sure-didn't-see-that-coming surprise ending.
Like the Odyssey this film starts in medias res, as Fettah is already on the way up the coast of Morocco, almost to Casablanca, after which he'll need to head out into the open ocean.
The house was packed, but the film ended to muted applause from the audience. Was that a natural outcome from the ambiguous ending, or were they disappointed?
The actor, Fettah Lamara, pointed out in the Q&A afterwards that one possible reason the filmmaker described the journey the way he did is because he's speaking to all the poeple who are emigrating now from Africa to Europe, all the people who are getting ready to take the trip, a few of whom will drown or otherwise not survive the journey, and the director needs to remind those people thinking about it how difficult and dangerous it is and that success is not guaranteed.
I am now officially calling bullshit on the assertions I'd heard that Canadians are a better film audience than Americans. This is the third film in a row where someone next to me is an anti-film distraction. During My Darling Clementine there was a little picnic and discussion group going on to my right. During Haemoo somebody directly behind me was making a horrible clicking sound every 5-10 seconds the entire length of the movie. And here, more distractions from two guys to my right. And afterwards they left their cup in the seats! And their umbrella on the floor! Slobs! Aaargh, I hate going to movies!
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