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Eye on Juliet

2017

Kim Nguyen

Joe Cole, Lina El Arabi, Faycal Zeglat, Mohammed Sakhi ...

5.7

39

Drama 'Eye on Juliet' tells the story of an unlikely encounter between Gordon (Joe Cole), a hexapod operator, and Ayusha (Lina El Arabi), a young woman from the Middle East. Gordon, guardian of a pipeline in this desert region, becomes fascinated by Ayusha, while piloting his robotic spider from the other side of the world, in America. Ayusha is promised to an older man she doesn't love. Despite the distance, their mutual fear and their ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Guy Lodge Variety	"[It] is naive by design (...) [It] winds up seeming more than a little obtuse in its flat avoidance of geopolitical detail, not helped by disproportionately faint sketching of its non-western characters — a disappointment"
		Boyd van Hoeij The Hollywood Reporter	"A surprisingly cliched and tone-deaf melodrama (...) The storytelling is more often shaky than smooth (...) A very limited, borderline banal view of its African characters"

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