Amal El Atrache

This is an adventure comedy ,. Two "clans" embark on a treasure hunt. On the one hand, Ouchen, his wife, his daughter and his lifelong friend Zouak. And on the other, Professor Tayeb. They embark on an extraordinary journey together. The motivations of the two clans differ: between the good faith of Tayeb, who dreams of a great scientific discovery and wants to return the treasure to the State, and the Ouchen gang who only thinks of their own interests. But travel and cohabitation have a say. Which of the two clans will tip the scales in their favor?

The protagonist is obsessed with the 1982 film Disco Dancer that his now deceased projectionist father showed him when he was a kid, a film that, his father said, contains the answers to all questions. Jimmy adopts the name and dress of its hero, his bedroom is an altar to Bollywood and disco, he lives in a state of arrested development that starts and stops with Disco Dancer. Of course, he is in love with Mouna, the dream girl who lives on the other side of the tracks, and whose bourgeois demeanor rubs up his pal, Houda, the wrong way. In order to get to her, the dazzled thirty-year old dreamer decides to shoot a remake of Dirty Dancer with a “borrowed” IPhone, in the slums. The destruction of the latter is imminent, under the harsh command of a cruel villain: Barkour.

6.7/10

A comedy/drama set in a village and centered on a battle of the sexes, where women threaten to withhold sexual favours as long as the men refuse to install a water pipe.

7.3/10