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Title: Dreams and Desertscapes
Review: Even tho the blind, aged Dervish doesn't know the way as he journeys with his granddaugther thru the desert to the Dervish gathering, he has his faith to guide him. He is wise and at one with the world. And he must make this pilgrimage. We all do. As we will learn at the end.Like "The Arabian Nights", this incorporates other stories within the main one -- of people on private quests. While the stories are very dramatic, they are subtly explored in vague and dreamlike ways -- like a Sufi tale.This movie is more than that, however. It's also a sensory experience. This is an unbelievably beautiful film. Of desertscape. Of buildings and vibrant artifacts. Of haunting music and poetry.While the Tunisia-born writer/director Nacer Khemi may be a lost soul, torn between his present life in France and his Arabic background, and anguished by the present-day turmoil of the Islamic world, he has sublimated his painful, personal quest into a film of great beauty.
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