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  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • Grasshopper Film
  • 1 h 36 m
  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • Grasshopper Film
  • 1 h 36 m

Summary Winner of the Critics' Week Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Oliver Laxe’s stunning new film, Mimosas, is a breathtakingly shot Western that follows a mysterious caravan carrying a dying sheikh into the Moroccan Atlas Mountains. Somewhere in the desert, a caravan is escorting an elderly sheik to the village where he was born. His...

Directed By: Óliver Laxe

Written By: Santiago Fillol, Óliver Laxe

  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • Grasshopper Film
  • 1 h 36 m
  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • Grasshopper Film
  • 1 h 36 m

Mimosas

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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Summary Winner of the Critics' Week Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Oliver Laxe’s stunning new film, Mimosas, is a breathtakingly shot Western that follows a mysterious caravan carrying a dying sheikh into the Moroccan Atlas Mountains. Somewhere in the desert, a caravan is escorting an elderly sheik to the village where he was born. His...

Directed By: Óliver Laxe

Written By: Santiago Fillol, Óliver Laxe

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
64
56% Positive
5 Reviews
44% Mixed
4 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
64
56% Positive
5 Reviews
44% Mixed
4 Reviews
0% Negative
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83
Feb 24, 2017
It’s a spiritual, ambiguously plotted journey through the Atlas Mountains, and those willing to give in to its mystical embrace and gorgeous visuals should find it a sensual, engrossing watch.
By Ed Frankl FULL REVIEW
80
Feb 24, 2017
It's a sparse and ravishing meditation on faith.
By Ben Nicholson FULL REVIEW
70
May 23, 2016
This is partly a consummate figures-in-a-landscape study, with characters – and their accompanying mules - often merging into the vastness of a varied, but usually profoundly, inhospitable landscape. But the cast makes striking use of non-professionals, and Laxe has an unerring eye for faces that tell a story.
By Jonathan Romney FULL REVIEW
67
Apr 12, 2017
Perhaps Mimosas is nothing more than a high-minded (but very affectionate) paean to naïveté, an incomplete adventure that eschews both sophistication and interpretation.
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky FULL REVIEW
60
Aug 23, 2017
An intriguing tale of faith under pressure emerges, but it’s too slow and simple to truly convince.
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60
May 23, 2016
Those familiar with the ethnographic works of Ben Rivers (who gets a thanks in the closing credits) and the films of Argentine director Lisandro Alonso (“Jauja”) will find much to admire in the movie’s combination of spiritual musings and stunning landscapes.
By Ben Kenigsberg FULL REVIEW
60
May 23, 2016
With such an elliptical tease of a plot, which jumps back and forth temporally disdaining explication, some may feel a little of this travelogue goes a long way.
By Leslie Felperin FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Zeitun Films, La Prod, Rouge International, Studio Indie Productions, Axencia Galega das Industrias Culturais (AGADIC), Crea SGR, Deputación de A Coruña, Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales (ICAA), Televisión de Galicia (TVG) S.A.
Release Date Apr 14, 2017
Duration 1 h 36 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://www.laprod.ma/production.php?id=32
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Awards

Mestre Mateo Awards
• 2 Wins & 5 Nominations
Almeria Western Film Festival
• 4 Wins & 4 Nominations
Seville European Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations

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