Waiting for Happiness
Abderrahmane Sissako directs a Mauritanian-set drama which won the Cannes 2002 International Critics' Prize.
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Artificial Eye - Waiting for Happiness
Official UK resource for this Mauritanian drama directed by Abderrahmane Sissako features a cast list, press quotes and credits.
www.artificial-eye.comBBCi Films - Waiting for Happiness
Critic Jamie Russell reviews this tortoise-slow movie, "Waiting for Godot, Mauritanian style", which despite its lack of pace "builds into something quite enchanting".
www.bbc.co.ukGuardian Unlimited - Waiting for Happiness Guardian Film Review
Peter Bradshaw warms to a film requiring "an investment of patience" and "repaying it with a sweet and subtle portrait of an islanded community".
film.guardian.co.ukGuardian Unlimited - Waiting for Happiness Observer Film Review
Philip French rates a film known as "Heremakono" in its native Mauritania that "is a mosaic of characters, small incidents and images, quietly observed, never explained".
film.guardian.co.ukIMDb - Heremakono
Internet Movie Database review of a film known in English as "Waiting for Happiness" features a cast list, plot outline and user comments.
us.imdb.comRotten Tomatoes - Waiting for Happiness
Abderrahmane Sissako's drama set in his native Mauritania escapes a critical mauling, although there are some dissenting voices.
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