The String

The String

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Release Date

5/12/2009

Runtime

93 mins

Overview

Malik has a lot on his plate when he returns home to Tunisia after living in France. He's processing his father's death, he can't come out to his mother, and his childhood anxieties have resurfaced. But all of Malik's problems seem to fade away when he falls for Bilal, the dreamy houseboy at his mother's bourgeois estate.

Status

Released

Original Language

Arabic

Budget

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Revenue

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A quietly intimate portrait of a man grieving his father while navigating hidden desire in the spaces of his mother's home. The film moves with patient grace through unspoken longing and the complicated weight of secrets.

Mood

WistfulMelancholicRomantic

Themes

IdentityLoveGriefFamily

Tone

Tender

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

Naturalistic

Structure

Linear

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Sexual content

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