Amin, un jeune architecte qui vit à Paris, retourne précipitamment à Fès au chevet de son oncle mourant. Il n’a plus reparlé à l’homme qui l’a élevé depuis qu’il a quitté Fès il y a dix ans. Les visites du jeune architecte à l’hôpital ravivent sa peine, longtemps refoulée, exacerbée par les silences entourant la mort de sa mère ainsi que ses blessures profondes d’enfant battu.
Son ami d’enfance, l’artisan menuisier Aziz, l’exhorte à ne pas ressasser le passé et se complaire dans le ressentiment. Amin rencontre Hourya, jeune fille audacieuse et gaie. L’histoire d’amour qui vient de naître entre eux est vite contrariée. La mort de l’oncle n’apaise pas les tourments du jeune homme qui devra trouver en lui-même ses propres réponses.




Un film écrit, réalisé et produit par Ahmed EL MAANOUNI

Une coproduction : Rabii Films Productions
Sigma Technologies
KS Visions

Directeur de la photographie
Pierre BOFFETY

Ingénieur du Son
Fawzi THABET

Chef Monteur
Oussama OUSSIDHOUM

Paroles et musiques des chansons
Mohamed DERHEM
Abdelaziz TAHIRI

Adaptation des dialogues
Ahmed Tayeb LAALEJ
Abdelhak BERNI

Interprètes :

Amin : Hicham BAHLOUL
Ba Jelloul : Mohamed DERHEM
Aziz : Mohamed MAROUAZI
L’oncle Az : Al Arab KAGHAT
Hourya : Amal SETTA
Batoul : Nadia ALAMI
Soumya : KHOULOUD
Najat : Fatimzahra LAHLOU
Bachir le rasta : Rafiq BOUBKER
Le Soudeur : Mohamed SEKKAT
Bouchta : Hassan BOUANANE
Maalem Abbas : Mohamed ADIL
Mère de Batoul : Amina RACHID
Mère de Hourya : Fatima MOUSTAÏD
Professeur Bentaleb : Ahmed Tayeb LAALEJ
Vendeuse : Halqa CHAMA
Abdou : Abdelhak BERNI
Inspecteur de police : Noureddine CHAOUNI
Ba Hmad : Mohamed LEMRINI
Zineb : Samira LASFAR
Chanteuse gargote : Amal ELOUAZZANI
Touriste américain : Jean Pierre FAVRE

Feature film comeback by cult director El Maanouni. The young Moroccan architect Amin travels from Paris to Morocco to visit his dying uncle. The visit frees up various unpleasant memories. With beautiful music.

Burned Hearts constantly operates on a double level: that of the visible lightness of the first level of the story, so lively enriched by an admirable use of Moroccan folk music – and that of the deep graveness which runs through the narrative in half-tone. The architecture of the film carries this imprint which provides an internal vision, excludes all stereotypes and functions by counterpoint (light is also measured by the quality of the shade it produces).
Amin (Hicham Bahloul), a young architect living in Paris, returns suddenly to Fès, Morocco, where his uncle is dying. He has not spoken with the man who brought him up since he left his hometown Fès ten years earlier to study and settle in Paris.
The visits of the young architect to the hospital revive deep wounds of his painful childhood. His long-time friend, the craftsman Aziz, exhorts him not to surrender to the past resentment. The death of the uncle does not soothe the agonies of the young man who will have to find his answers within himself.
Burned Hearts is a remarkable return to fiction by director Ahmed El Maanouni (author of the cult film Oh the Days, 1978) whose powerful musical documentary Trances was chosen to be restored and presented at Cannes Classics last year by Martin Scorsese to launch his World Cinema Foundation. (LC)

Source: IFFR 2008



Morocco 2007
Director: Ahmed El Maanouni
Producer: Badria Jaïdi, Ali Kettani
Production companies: Rabii Films Productions, Sigma Technologies
Sales: Rabii Films Productions
Print source: Rabii Films Productions
Scenario: Ahmed El Maanouni
Cast: Hicham Bahloul, Mohamed Derhem, Mohamed Marouazi, Az Al Arab Kaghat, Amal Setta, Nadia Alami, Khouloud, Fatimzahra Lahlou
Photography: Pierre Boffety
Editor: Oussama Oussidhoum
Sound: Fawzi Thabet
Music: Mohamed Derhem, Abdelaziz Tahiri
Length: 1h24′



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2008 | IFFR 2008 – 37th International Film Festival Rotterdam | ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands | www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com |
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