The String

6.720091h 33mReleased

Romance

Drama

Overview

Malik has a lot on his plate when he returns home to Tunisia after living in France. He's processing his father's death, he can't come out to his mother, and his childhood anxieties have resurfaced. But all of Malik's problems seem to fade away when he falls for Bilal, the dreamy houseboy at his mother's bourgeois estate.

StatusReleased

Release Date2009-05-12

Runtime1h 33m

LanguagesالعربيةFrançais

CountriesFranceBelgiumTunisia

Keywords

romance

in the closet

family

Videos

1 total

Trailer

The string / Le Fil (2010) - Trailer English Subs

Cast & Crew

Claudia Cardinale

as Sara

Antonin Stahly-Vishwanadan

as Malik

Salim Kéchiouche

as Bilal

Driss Ramdi

Ramla Ayari

Ali Mrabet

Abir Bennani

Rihab Mejri

Lotfi Dziri

Mehdi Ben Attia

Reviews

CinemaSerf

Aug 7, 2023

7/10

Quite a classy little film, this one. "Malik" (Antonin Viswanadhan) returns from Paris to his home in Tunisia after the death of his father and falls in love with his mother's handyman "Bilal" (Salim Kechiouche). He doesn't so much come out to, as get caught out by, his mother - a still stunning Claudia Cardinale - and the story focuses on the pers…

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