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Waiting for Happiness

2002, Movie, 1h 31min

Before immigrating to the West, Abdallah travels to the coastal city of Nouadhibou, Mauritania, to visit his mother. Although he grew up there, Abdallah feels anything but at home in his old neighborhood: he can no longer speak the local dialect and he wears western clothes that immediately cast him as an outsider. But, as Abdallah spends time with a young boy and an elderly electrician, he can't help but feel a sense of loss for the life he's abandoning.

Country: Mauritania,France

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Reviews

Critic William Thomas

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...rarely have the themes of migration, social displacement and cultural imperialism been explored with such a delicate mix of melancholy at the passing of custom and the wistfulness of the exile-in-waiting...

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