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An adaptation of a Guantanamo prisoner's memoir splits its time between legal drama and P.O.W. survivalist tale and gives you one first-rate performance
Rolling Stone ‘The Mauritanian’: Putting a Face to the War on Terror’s Casualties
An adaptation of a Guantanamo prisoner’s memoir splits its time between legal drama and P.O.W. survivalist tale and gives you one first-rate performance
By Tahar Rahim in The Mauritanian.
The Mauritanian (now in theaters, though you’re more likely to catch it when it goes on-demand starting March 2nd) begins with both a return and an exit. A man named Mohamedou Ould Slahi (Tahar Rahim) has come home to North Africa for a wedding. He’s been abroad, studying electrical engineering in Germany and living briefly in Montreal. It’s November 2001, two months after 9/11. While visiting with his family, the authorities drop by to see him. The Americans are interested in you, they tell Slahi. They want to know if you can help them locate your cousin, Mahfouz Ould al-Walid, a.k.a. Abu Hafs al-Mauritani, a.k.a. a member of Al Qaeda and advisor to Osama Bin Laden. If you could