Mimosas (film)

Mimosas
Film poster
Directed byOliver Laxe
Written byOliver Laxe
Santiago Fillol
Produced byFelipe Lage Coro
Lamia Chraibi
Nadia Turincev
StarringAhmed Hammoud
Shakib Ben Omar
Said Aagli
CinematographyMauro Herce
Edited byCristóbal Fernández
Production
companies
Zeitun Films
La Prod
Rouge International
Distributed byUFO Distribution (France) NUMAX Distribución (Spain)
Release dates
  • 16 May 2016 (2016-05-16) (Cannes)
  • 24 August 2016 (2016-08-24) (France)
  • 5 January 2017 (2017-01-05) (Spain)
Running time
96 minutes
CountriesSpain
Morocco
France
Qatar
LanguagesArabic
Galician

Mimosas (original title: Mimosas) is a 2016 drama film directed and co-written by Oliver Laxe, described by Laxe as 'a Religious Western'. The film is a co-production between Spain, Morocco, France and Qatar. It was screened in the Critics' Week section at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival[1][2] where it won the Nespresso Grand Prize.[3]

The film shares some footage with Ben Rivers's The Sky Trembles and the Earth is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers and an installation by Artangel that accompanied it: Rivers's film portrays a high-handed Western film-maker working in North Africa, and uses footage of the making of Mimosas.[4][5] In the assessment of Jonathan Romney, '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.'[6]

  1. ^ "Mimosas". Semaine de la Critique. Archived from the original on 24 April 2017. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
  2. ^ "Estar en Cannes ya es un gran éxito". La Opinión.
  3. ^ Nancy Tartaglione (19 May 2016). "Critics' Week Grand Prize Goes To 'Mimosas' – Cannes". Deadline. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
  4. ^ Jonathan Romney, "Mimosas: Cannes Review", Screen Daily (16 May 2016), www.screendaily.com/reviews/mimosas-cannes-review/5104037.article.
  5. ^ Daniel Kasman, 'Discussing "Mimosas" with Oliver Laxe', Notebook (13 September 2016), https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/discussing-mimosas-with-oliver-laxe.
  6. ^ Jonathan Romney, "Mimosas: Cannes Review", Screen Daily (16 May 2016)