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What a Wonderful World

Souad is a prostitute whose best friend is Kenza, a tough traffic cop. Kamel is a stonyeyed contract killer who receives his hit orders via the Internet; he is also Souad's favorite customer. When Kenza falls in love with Kamel, the two begin a bizarre courtship doomed by their disparate lines of work, and a persistent cybersnooping hacker who stumbles upon the site where Kamel receives his murderous contracts. Moroccan actordirector Faouzi Bensadi's promiscuously stylish film is a new vision of an old culture, unveiling an uncommon Casablanca caught in a world wide web of associations and consequences.

(In Arabic; English subtitles)

"I shoot Casablanca like an actress. She's like a star with a lot of capriciousness. Sometimes she doesn't want to work. Sometimes she doesn't want to give her face to the camera. Sometimes I feel I have to manage her. I feel I have a human relationship with the city." --- Faouzi Bensadi