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The Mother of All Lies is a good, perhaps different, approach to understanding it. El Moudir uses this direction to unearth her family’s past, secrets, and deception. Full Review | Jan 25, 2024
May 26, 2023 · ‘The Mother of All Lies’ Review: An Inspired Moroccan Documentary Tackles Family Secrets and a Nation’s History. Helmer Asmae El Moudir won the best director prize in Cannes' Un Certain ...
Oct 23, 2023 · The Mother of All Lies: Directed by Asmae ElMoudir. With Mohamed El Moudir, Asmae ElMoudir, Zahra Jeddaoui, Said Masrour. A Moroccan woman's search for truth tangles with a web of lies in her family history.
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Jan 12, 2024 · The Mother of All Lies” is a film about memory and how it lingers in the subconscious, the ghosts of which continue to haunt us, even when we think we’ve slayed them. . The film is at once an act of discovery, as well as an ode to remembrance; discovering that the past can never truly be suppressed or escaped and accepting that the act of remembering – though painful – can bring about ...
Jul 13, 2023 · Variety. Nov 21, 2023. The Mother of All Lies is an astonishing work whose maturity comes from El Moudir’s wide-eyed approach to her family history, where memory and history are quite literally reduced to playthings in order to process the unspeakable events they conjure up. Read More.
Nov 13, 2023 · Moroccan filmmaker Asmae El Moudir’s experimental, strange and riveting documentary The Mother of All Lies delves into secrets that her family, and her country, have kept for years. The film won the Best Directing award in Un Certain Regard at Cannes. Now it is Morocco’s nominee for the International Feature Film Oscar.Read the full review at AWFJ.org
