Adam

Name: Adam
Genre: Drama
Released: March 5, 2021
Duration: 98 min
Rating: 74
Cast: Aziz Hattab, Douae Belkhaouda, Hasna Tamtaoui, Lubna Azabal, Nisrin Erradi

2021

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Strand Releasing | Release Date (Streaming): March 5, 2021 | Not Rated

Starring: Aziz Hattab, Douae Belkhaouda, Hasna Tamtaoui, Lubna Azabal, Nisrin Erradi

Summary: Abla runs a modest local bakery from her home in Casablanca where she lives alone with her 8-year-old daughter Warda. Their routine of housework and homework is interrupted one day by a knock on the door. It is Samia, a young woman looking for a job and a roof over her head. The little girl is immediately taken with the newcomer, but herAbla runs a modest local bakery from her home in Casablanca where she lives alone with her 8-year-old daughter Warda. Their routine of housework and homework is interrupted one day by a knock on the door. It is Samia, a young woman looking for a job and a roof over her head. The little girl is immediately taken with the newcomer, but her mother initially refuses to allow a pregnant stranger into their home. Gradually, however, Abla’s resolve softens and Samia’s arrival begins to offer all of them the prospect of a new life. [Strand Releasing]… Expand

Director: Maryam Touzani

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 98 min

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Deborah Young

Jan 30, 2023

With great delicacy, [Maryam Touzani] shows how Moroccan society censures a woman who gives birth outside marriage — not a terribly original theme, but here it is made heartrending by the superb performances of Lubna Azabal and Nisrin Erradi in the lead roles. Read full review

Carlos Aguilar

Mar 4, 2021

Subtly moving, Adam is a beautiful expression of untainted sorority. Read full review

Jay Weissberg

Jan 30, 2023

Taking the stories of two women, both frozen in existential stasis, and bringing them together in a predictable yet deeply satisfying manner, the writer-director ensures this scrupulously even two-hander about grief, shame, and the redemption of motherhood doles out emotional comfort food that’s neither too sweet nor too heavy. Read full review

Ben Kenigsberg

Mar 4, 2021

In Maryam Touzani’s Adam, certain stylistic choices — a muted palette, the absence of a melodramatic score, hand-held camerawork — help temper sentimentality with verisimilitude. Read full review

Tim Grierson

Jan 30, 2023

Deft performances from Lubna Azabal and Nisrin Erradi add heart and soul to this slender chronicle of a de facto family learning to rely on one another. Read full review

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