Rabat is een roadmovie die de kijker meeneemt op de reis van
de drie vrienden Nadir (Nasrdin Dchar), Abdel (Achmed Akkabi) en Zakaria (Chico
Kenzari). Als Nadir van de ene op de andere dag de oude taxi van zijn vader van
Amsterdam naar Rabat moet rijden, nodigen zijn twee beste vrienden zichzelf uit
om met hem mee te gaan. De reis voert het drietal door het Europese landschap
naar de Marokkaanse hoofdstad. Nieuwe werelden, ontmoetingen onderweg en het
geheime reisdoel van Nadir zetten de vriendschap naarmate ze dichter bij Rabat
komen steeds verder onder druk.
A Moroccan guy is instructed by his father to drive an old
Mercedes taxi from The Netherlands to Rabat (a city in Morocco). When his
friends learn of this they invite themselves to join on the trip and the three
of them drive into the distance.
And so the film starts, after a short introduction into the three characters. This film is a typical road movie, with the three of them learning more about themselves and each other as they go and are influenced by the countries they drive through. The film is littered with conversations and run-ins with more or less random people and the interaction is great. Some of the people look a bit more flat than they should be - mostly because they bring their roles as if reading a story from paper instead of entire life like but the effect isn't strong enough to really annoy.
As expected there is a touch on the cultural differences between Western Europeans and (Northern) Africans - made worse by the fact that the three main characters in this film were either born in The Netherlands or living there for the longest of time and are therefore a lot more Western minded than their own people. The touch is there but it never goes further than relatively light and doesn't enforce something to think about, but it's good enough.
And so the film starts, after a short introduction into the three characters. This film is a typical road movie, with the three of them learning more about themselves and each other as they go and are influenced by the countries they drive through. The film is littered with conversations and run-ins with more or less random people and the interaction is great. Some of the people look a bit more flat than they should be - mostly because they bring their roles as if reading a story from paper instead of entire life like but the effect isn't strong enough to really annoy.
As expected there is a touch on the cultural differences between Western Europeans and (Northern) Africans - made worse by the fact that the three main characters in this film were either born in The Netherlands or living there for the longest of time and are therefore a lot more Western minded than their own people. The touch is there but it never goes further than relatively light and doesn't enforce something to think about, but it's good enough.
Zeer goede film!
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