Beach Café

Beach Café

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 2001

Runtime

1h 23m

Genres

Comedy, Drama

User Score

50%

Original Title

Café de la plage

Production Companies

Cinételéma, Elia Films, Les Films du Requin

Director

Benoît Graffin

Description

Driss is a jack-of-all trades type who sells fish from his car and moves furniture from one end of his hometown Tangiers to the other. His girlfriend is a free-spirited and wealthy European lass who runs an antique shop. One day, Driss becomes fascinated with Fouad, an old man who runs a rundown café by the beach. Fouad disdains his fellow Moroccans, calling them lazy, preferring the company of Europeans -- particularly, as Driss later learns -- young European women. Always on the make, Driss offers Fouad a business proposition -- to revamp his establishment and turn it into a proper restaurant with Driss as his business partner. He is later shocked and hurt to learn that Fouad starts to remodel his business but without Driss. Sending out his friends as spies, Driss learns a number of unsettling things about his would-be associate.