John Michael McDonagh’s drama revolves around a traveler who has accidentally killed a boy in Morocco.
Based on a 2012 Lawrence Osborne novel that might well have been set many decades earlier, John Michael McDonagh’swatches rich Westerners treat Morocco like their playground, scarcely noticing the poverty and disapproval surrounding their opulent parties. Imperialist-grade entitlement goes only so far in the modern world, though, and when one partyer accidentally kills a local teen, some kind of accommodation is going to have to be made.
Scripted, directed and acted with intelligence and panache, it’s a very grown-up film but never a bore, a morally alert drama that leaves the scolding to us. Less mysterious and tightly wound than McDonagh’s excellent
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