Not RatedThe String

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Play Time: 93 mins
Romance, Drama
The String

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.

Original Title:Le fil
Status: Released (2009-05-12)
Awards:1 win
Screen:Mehdi Ben Attia, Olivier Laneurie
Productions: Need Productions, Propaganda Pictures, Mille et une productions
Production Countries: France, Belgium, Tunisia
Spoken Languages: Français
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Quite a classy little film, this one. "Malik" (Antonin Viswanadhan) returns from Paris to his home in Tunisia after the death of his father and falls in love with his mother's handyman "Bilal" (Salim Kechiouche). He doesn't so much come out to, as get caught out by, his mother - a st ....

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