Rome Rather Than You

Roma wa la n'toura (English: Rome Rather Than You; French: Rome plutôt que vous) is a 2006 Algerian-French-German drama film directed by Tariq Teguia[2] and starring Samira Kaddour and Rachid Amrani as two young people who seek to leave Algeria and the Algerian Civil War behind for a brighter future.[3] This is Teguia's feature film directorial debut.[4] (He had previously made a few shorts and a 2002 documentary.[5]) The film won the Special Jury Award at the 2007 Fribourg International Film Festival.[6]

Rome Rather Than You
Directed byTariq Teguia
Produced byHelge Albers
Cati Couteau
Tariq Teguia
Yacine Teguia
Written byTariq Teguia
StarringSamira Kaddour
Rachid Amrani
CinematographyHacène Ait Kaci
Nasser Medjkane
Edited byAndrée Davanture
Rodolphe Molla
Production
company
Neffa Films
Institut national de l'audiovisuel
Flying Moon Filmproduktion
Release date
[1]
Running time
111 minutes
CountryAlgeria
France
Germany
LanguageArabic

Plot

Twenty-year-old Kamel and his friend, twenty-three-year-old Zina, search Algiers for human trafficker Bosco to obtain forged passports so they can leave the country for Rome.

Reception

Variety magazine critic Robert Koehler praised "Tariq Teguia’s highly accomplished debut ... Although the final moments are foreseeable, both the getting there and the immediate aftermath show Teguia to be a director of major promise".[4] Koehler also approved of the "naturalistic, easygoing perfs [performances]" of Kaddoui and Amrani.[4] In Slant Magazine, however, Eric Henderson considered the film to be "arrogantly conceived, pretentiously executed, and petulantly protracted".[7]

Cast
  • Samira Kaddour as Zina
  • Rachid Amrani as Kamel
  • Ahmed Benaissa as The policeman
  • Kader Affak as Malek
  • Lali Maloufi as Merzak
  • Moustapha Benchaïb as Mahmoud
  • Khaddra Boudedhane as Zina's mother
  • Rabbie Azzabi as Young man in sportswear
  • Fethi Ghares as Young man in working overalls

References
  1. Camillo De Marco. "Geopolitics according to Tariq Teguia in Inland". cineuropa.org.
  2. "Roma wa la n'touma". Library of Congress.
  3. "Rome Rather Than You". International Film Festival Rotterdam.
  4. Robert Roehler (21 March 2007). "Rome Rather Than You". Variety.
  5. "Tariq Teguia at IFFR". International Film Festival Rotterdam.
  6. "Friborg: Success of the 21st Friborg International Film Festival". www.cath.ch.
  7. Eric Henderson (13 March 2007). "Review: Rome Rather Than You". Slant Magazine.
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