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Movie Overview
Cast
Parviz Shahinkhou
Nessim Kahloul
Maryam Hamid
Director
Nacer Khemir
MPAA Rating
Not Rated
Bab'Aziz - The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul (2008)
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OFCS Rating: 67% Fresh
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71/100
"The film is never anything less than interesting to look at."
Apollo Guide
Dan Jardine
5/5
"An enchanting and parabolic film by Tunisian director Nacer Khemir about the beauty, grace, humility, and love of the Sufi path of the heart"
Spirituality and Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
2/4
"More like homework than entertainment"
Movie Habit
Marty Mapes
2/4
"As far as fable imports go,
Bab'Aziz
is a step up from the Disney-grade moralism of
Milarepa
, but it's even less memorable."
Slant Magazine
Paul Schrodt
4/5
"The arrival of the film is, to misuse a dervish cliche, something worth singing and dancing about."
Film Threat
Phil Hall
B
"[Nacer] Khemir, a poet and a painter as well as a filmmaker... uses the endless, timeless desert landscape to create an existence in which past and present coexist."
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
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