''Adam'' is a 2019 Moroccan
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ...
directed by
Maryam Touzani
Maryam Touzani (born 17 September 1980) is a Moroccan filmmaker and actress. She is best known as the director of the critically acclaimed film ''Adam (2019)'', Morocco's entry for the 92nd Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film, an ...
. It was screened in the
Un Certain Regard
(, meaning 'a certain glance') is a section of the Cannes Film Festival's official selection. It is run at the Debussy, parallel to the competition for the . This section was introduced in 1978 by Gilles Jacob.
The section presents 20 films w ...
section at the
2019 Cannes Film Festival
The 72nd annual Cannes Film Festival took place from 14 to 25 May 2019. Mexican filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu served as jury president. The Palme d'Or went to the South Korean film ''Parasite'', directed by Bong Joon-ho; Bong became t ...
. It was selected as the Moroccan entry for the
Best International Feature Film at the
92nd Academy Awards
The 92nd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored films released in 2019 and took place on February 9, 2020, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, beginning at 5:00 p ...
, but it was not nominated.
Plot
The film focuses on Samia, a young unwed pregnant mother who goes looking for work and is taken in by a widowed baker, Abla. The film was inspired by a similar situation Touzani experienced where her parents sheltered a heavily pregnant woman in
Tangier
Tangier ( ; ; ar, طنجة, Ṭanja) is a city in northwestern Morocco. It is on the Moroccan coast at the western entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar, where the Mediterranean Sea meets the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Spartel. The town is the capi ...
for several days during a time when being an unwed pregnant woman was illegal in Morocco.
Cast
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Lubna Azabal as Abla
* Nissrine Erradi as Samia
* Douae Belkhaouda as Warda
* Aziz Hattab as Slimani
* Hasnaa Tamtaoui as Rkia
Reception
On
Rotten Tomatoes
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, the film has an approval rating of based on reviews from critics, with an average rating of .
See also
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List of Moroccan submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
References
External links
* {{IMDb title, 10199664, Adam
2019 films
2019 drama films
Moroccan drama films
2010s Arabic-language films