Much Loved

2015 [ARABIC]

Action / Drama

16
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 60% · 2 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 60% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.2/10 10 3290 3.3K

morocco rape police corruption prostitution humiliation marrakesh, morocco

Plot summary

A social drama about four marginalized prostitutes in Marrakech and their complex relations with their families and society at large.

Director

Nabil Ayouch Photo
Nabil Ayouch

Top cast

Loubna Abidar Photo
Loubna Abidar as Noha
Mohamed Rezqi Photo
Mohamed Rezqi as Taxi driver
Zainab Photo
Zainab
Hamza Arts Photo
Hamza Arts
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956.22 MB
1280*694
Arabic 2.0
NR
Subtitles us   dk   es   fr   no   nl   pl   ro   sv   tr  
24 fps
1 hr 44 min
Seeds 3
1.92 GB
1920*1040
Arabic 5.1
NR
Subtitles us   dk   es   fr   no   nl   pl   ro   sv   tr  
24 fps
1 hr 44 min
Seeds 5

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by avatsa 6 / 10

A very realistic portrayal of the lives of prostitutes in Morocco, but gets repetitive at times.

This movie is about life of prostitutes in Morocco. Every fifteen minutes, someone f**ks someone. And there are some amazing things about it. The movie, by sheer means of visual storytelling, conveys how prostitutes can be loved, raped and abused, just like anyone else, even when all the three actions, on a physically level, are just sexual acts. You also get to see prostitution as just any job. You also see the challenges with this particular job - the boycott by family members and neighbours, feeling of loss of power with powerful clients / police etc. This movie offers a fine, realistic glimpse of the life of prostitutes in Morocco, portraying a very neutral look at their lives. You relate to them on many levels (good days at work, bad days at work, cracking jokes with friends, finding support and solace in friends in times of despair etc.).Above are the things that I liked, but there are issues with the movie too. There are passages which feel either repetitive or longer than they need to be. As a feature length movie, it falters many a times in the 'pace' department. It just keeps randomly slowing down, now and then and that's some major turn off, for a movie that otherwise has so much visual stimuli to turn you on, quite literally.
Reviewed by dapadayachee 7 / 10

The film has been produced with a fair amount of sensitivity and concern.

DIFF: Much Loved This is a carefully portrayed account of the life of a group of courtesans in Marrakesh, Morocco. This sort of life-style has a long history in Arab, Indian and other traditions. The film has been produced with a fair amount of sensitivity and concern. The social ostracism that the beautiful women and their families experience is starkly portrayed. They experience rejection, embarrassment and humiliation from parents, children and their lovers. It is all done with a surprising amount of panache and humour. Even lesbianism has a look in. As always, the customers do not come off looking too good. There are no gangster pimps in this scenario except for a taxi driver who transports the women. We are all aware that there are cops who prey on women of this kind. Morocco is not exempt from this sort of challenge. As with all foreign films of lands which do not usually feature in mainstream cinema, I found the Moroccan street scenes, the social environment, body language, customs and homes authentic and very interesting to analyse. As expected, the film is banned in Morocco but I found the film worth seeing. In the same way that unproven medication and fake doctors should be banned, illegal prostitution should not be allowed. I think that properly controlled (by the authorities) prostitution should be legal. That protects both the customers and those who wish to exist in this way. In this age of HIV/AIDS, Herpes and other devastating venereal diseases making prostitution illegal is illogical and irrational in my opinion.
Reviewed by josemanuelh 7 / 10

excelent movie about a tough matter in a tough country

No suprise this film was never showed in its country, I even find it difficult to understand how it could be made, it shows well how things work there, how every public servant is on sale and prone to abuse the weak, and the extreme hypochresy of societe about sex, prostitution and overall the clientsthere is a scene at the police station than may well represent the whole picture of the movie, I will not explain to avoid spoilersgreat acting most of the time and very well direction also, a must see if you are into exploring good movies outside the mainstream.
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