Thanks apple

Got to see this movie today on TV. It's not one I'd want to have paid to see at the cinema...  very slow... but it works well enough on the box.

My major criticism is, that although most of the scenes are very well composed and the village locations are 100% authentic, the stationary camera shots used a lot throughout the film are too obvious and make the viewer too aware of the camera and even wondering 'where has the cameraman gone?' or perhaps 'why wasn't the movie edited more tightly?'  At times people walk in and out of camera view while the camera seems to forget to follow the actors and focuses on a wall or whatever.

Fouad Labied, the boy who plays Mehdi, is quite appealing and most of his scenes were worth watching, unfortunately if you add together his scenes he's probably only in about half of the film.