Abdellah Taïa

TIFF 2013 | Salvation Army (Abdellah Taïa, France/Morocco)—Discovery

By Michael Sicinski In a perfect world, film festivals would be filled with debut films as disciplined and poetic as Salvation Army, a film that first-time director Taïa adapted from his own autobiographical novel. This fact alone should be cause for consideration: How many filmmakers wallow in the self-indulgent excesses of autobiography? So few are…
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