London River
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 28 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: March 6, 2012
- Originally Released: 2009
- Label: Cinema Libre
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Roschdy Zem, Bernard Blancan, Sotigui Kouyaté, Brenda Blethyn & Sami Bouajila | |
Directed by | Rachid Bouchareb | |
Screenwriting by | Rachid Bouchareb & Olivier Lorelle | |
Composition by | Armand Amar | |
Director of Photography: | Jérôme Alméras |
Entertainment Reviews:
Not surprisingly, the choice of the actress who played lead female character in Mike Leigh's "Secrets and Lies" betrays an affinity for Leigh in more than just the casting--and there's nothing wrong with that.
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rec.arts.movies.reviews
Rating: 3/4 --
The film is a matter of Brenda Blethyn's performance vs. Sotigui Kouyate's presence.
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Chicago Sun-Times
3 stars out of 4 -- The film is a matter of Brenda Blethyn's performance vs. Sotigui Kouyate's presence.....The characters' reality rises above the film's ideas and makes it human.
Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 3/5 --
Blethyn and Kouyaté inhabit and expand the film's earnestly instructive intentions, leaving us with a deeply-felt experience rather than a naively-sketched lesson.
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New York Daily News
Rating: 8/10 --
Though the arc of the story is fairly predictable, Brenda Blethyn and Sotigui Kouyate bring humanity to their roles.
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Mark Leeper's Reviews
Rating: B+ --
Powerful. Director Rachid Bouchareb draws excellent, haunting performances from Blethyn and Kouyate. Ultimately moving and cautionary, "London River" shouldn't be missed.
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Movie Dearest
In what is essentially an actor's film, Blethyn in particular carves out a character who is incredibly authentic...
Sight and Sound
Product Description:
It marked a sickening and devastating second act to 9/11: On July 7, 2005, a series of bombs set by terrorists exploded on the London subways. Over 700 people were severely injured, and 56 people killed; authorities later discovered a videotape from one of the jihadists, declaring his sect at war with Great Britain. Rachid Bouchareb's drama LONDON RIVER puts a human face on this tragic event via the fictional stories of two people whose lives are turned inside out by the cataclysm. Ousmane (Sotigui Kouyate) is a Muslim living in France, while Mrs. Sommers (Academy Award nominee Brenda Blethyn) is a Christian war widow living on the British Channel Isles. Though unacquainted, and with different religious backgrounds, these strangers find themselves united in the city of London and linked by a shared tragedy: Each has lost touch with a child amid the attacks -- Mrs. Sommers, a daughter named Jane, and Ousmane, a son named Ali -- and it just so happens that the two were dating. Together, the pair begin combing the city and searching for their loved ones, bound by the hope that both children survived.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 74,353
- UPC: 881394112322
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