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The Departure
Le Départ
2020
Synopsis
Morocco, 2004. Adil, aged eleven, spends the summer playing with his friends and waiting for his idol, Olympic runner Hicham El Guerrouj, to compete in his last Games. The arrival of his father and older brother from France for a few days will mark him forever.
Editorial
Playtime comes to a stop in Saïd Hamich Benlarbi’s poignant film about the grown-up business of emigration. Sensitively lensed by cinematographer Marine Atlan, whose camera cradles mother-love and the lamplit, familiar things of home, The Departure puts off the unknown for as long as possible.
