The Blue Caftan

A middle-aged tailor and his wife find their relationship challenged by the arrival of a handsome new apprentice.

Cast

Lubna Azabal

as Mina

Saleh Bakri

as Halim

Ayoub Messioui

as Youssef

Zakaria Atifi

as Bachir

Mounia Lamkimel

as Blue Caftan Client

Abdelhamid Zoughi

as Doctor

Fatima Hilal

as Boutique Customer

Mariam Lalouaz

as Boutique Customer

Kholoud El Ouehabi

as Boutique Customer

Amira Tiouli

as Boutique Customer

Reviews

CinemaSerf

"Halim" (Saleh Bakri) lives with his ailing wife "Mina" (Lubna Azabal) and together they run a small tailoring business. Now he is a master craftsman, everything is measured, cut and stitched by hand - a fairly labour intensive and time consuming process. To help meet the demands of his impatient cu...

RedaX*

Very mediocre and not a step-up from Meryam Touzani's first feature which was also an okay film. The relationship between the three main characters wasn't dynamic or memorable. The moments when the film was trying to go deep with the relationship of the characters or their past didn't bring us cl...

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