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Don't tell me the boy was mad

Une histoire de fou

2015

Robert Guédiguian

Ariane Ascaride, Syrus Shahidi, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Simon Abkarian ...

6.2

571

Drama In the 80s, Aram, a young man from Marseille of Armenian origin, blows up the Turkish ambassador's car in Paris. Gilles Tessier, a young cyclist who was passing at that moment, is seriously injured. Aram, on the run, joins the Armenian Liberation Army in Beirut, the hotbed of international revolution in those years. Gilles is trying to understand when Anouch, Aram's mother, arrives in his hospital room to beg his forgiveness. She admits ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"The film benefits from detailed historical background (...) But contrived plotting, unidimensional characters and lack of economy weigh down the drama."
		Peter Debruge Variety	"Instead of inviting intimacy, it all unfolds in uninteresting spaces, unimaginatively blocked."
		Andrew Pulver The Guardian	"A meaty two-hour-plus drama, with Guédiguian sketching in the moral dilemmas with clarity and firmness. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"

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