In association with

Le Grand Voyage [2004]
from Parasol Pictures Releasing Ltd.
directed by Ismael Ferroukhi

Features:

• PAL

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Le grande voyage - moving film
  This wonderful, stirring film, directed by Ismaël Ferroukhi, excellently throws us into the worlds of two individuals from opposite sides of a generation - a devout Arabic-speaking father and his estranged french-speaking son during a road-trip to Mecca. Both are equally irritated by each other's beliefs and conduct; both are 'outsiders' to each other's lives - the 'old' faith versus a more modern non-practicing lifestyle: women, a non-Muslim girlfriend, booze and exam re-takes for example. At the... more info

• Breathtaking
  In every sense of the world, Ismael Ferroukhi's Le Grand Voyage, is breathtaking. The film follows father and son, Mohamed Majd and Nicolas Cazale, on what Majd believes is his last opportunity to fulfil his Hajj. Cazale doesn't want to go, he enjoys his life in suburban Paris with his girlfriend, has little to no interest in his religion and speaks no Arabic. His father meanwhile is devout, and speaks only Morrocan Arabic, little French. The journey, taken by car as the father believes that aside from... more info

Similar Products:

More from Amazon