Review of Monsieur Ibrahim (2003) by George F — 21 Feb 2004
[color=red]Although the performances of Omar Shariff and young Pierre Boulanger are good, [i]Monsieur Ibrahim [/i]is a daze-and-doze inducing "coming of age (COA)" story that doesn't know where it is going. As a result, it goes nowhere.[/color].
[color=#ff0000]The script seems to borrow ideas from all the other European COA films, makes little of the fact that the two main characters are Jewish and Muslim, and gives Shariff some of the most trite, cryptic "wisdom" lines you can imagine. The ending, and much of what precedes it, is sappy and mystifying. Mystifying as in "what is the point"?[/color].
[color=#ff0000]Of course, it wouldn't be a French COA movie unless an under age child was having sex, so the young Moses gets to visit three or four prostitutes who conveniently ply their trade outside his window. One has to wonder, then, why the kid wastes so much time listening to the Monsieur w[/color][color=red]hen he could be getting more pleasure, and at least as much wisdom, from the hookers.[/color].
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[color=red](Viewed on DVD)[/color].
This review of Monsieur Ibrahim (2003) was written by George F on 21 Feb 2004.
Monsieur Ibrahim has generally received very positive reviews.
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