Won't it be nice one day to not have to watch and rewatch this story over and over again about homosexual lovers keeping their love a secret, sometimes in the Pyrenees, sometimes in Wyoming, but here, in Tunisia, where class — not just homosexuality — plays a role in rich and privileged architect Malik wanting to keep his love of poor shoeless home-help Bilal a secret from mommy — a minor, well-meaning story set in an interesting cultural context but an oh-so-familiar one with lurching tonal shifts, sometimes opting for screwball sex comedy, sometimes becoming an absurdist farce with its peculiar "string" analogy thrown in only occasionally, and in its worst moments, it is a condescending social commentary.
★★☆☆☆
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