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'The Perfect Candidate' Reminds You That All Politics Are Local - Even in Saudi Arabia 'The Perfect Candidate' Reminds You That All Politics Are Local - Even in Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabian filmmaker Haifaa Al-Mansour turns the story of a female doctor who runs for office into a sly, buoyant social drama Jessica Kiang, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail It must have been exactly what conservative Saudis feared would happen: Let a woman like Haifaa Al-Mansour direct a movie (and the first movie ever shot in Saudi Arabia at that), and a few years later she’ll be back directing another. Only this...

“The Perfect Candidate” – It’s relative [MOVIE REVIEW] SHARE Mila Alzahrani in “The Perfect Candidate.” Photo courtesy of Music Box Films. “The Perfect Candidate,” written by Haifaa Al Mansour and Brad Niemann and directed by Mansour, is a film with as many ambitions as the lead character. This German/Saudi Arabian co-production was primarily filmed in Saudi Arabia, in itself a major accomplishment. That the director is a Saudi woman making her second film in that country is even more extraordinary. In many ways this is Mansour’s love song to her native land and the remark...

Wadjda, was also the first feature period to be filmed entirely in the country. She ran production from within a van, in order to avoid physically interacting with male members of her crew. Having since made a few films abroad (including a Mary Shelley biopic), Al-Mansour returned home for The Perfect Candidate, stepping outside of the van this time. The energy of that shift in methods—the newfound freedom of it—reverberates through the narrative. That the threads linking filmmaker to protagonist are clear makes them no less effective. But neither the film nor its heroine show any inte...

‘Wrath of Man’ Tops Quiet Box Office Weekend While the return to the box office has seem some welcome numbers that shows there is life to be had there as we try to make our way out of the pandemic, there’s also a limited number of films available and a limited number of people willing to return to the theater at this point. That’ll increase as vaccinations increased (get vaccinated!) but it’s going to be a slow build until we get a Really Big Film in the queue. This weekend saw the debut of  Wrath of Man and it took the top spot in 2,875 screens for $81 million. Its closest competi...

THE PERFECT CANDIDATE MOVIE REVIEW By Director: Haifaa Al-Mansour Cast: Mila Azahrani, Sara Nora Al Awadh, Dhay, Khalid Abdulrahim Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 5/6/21 Opens: May 14, 2021 You may be able to get gasoline in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for $2.15 a gallon, but what’s the advantage if you cannot use your car to drive to the movies? Update: As of 2018, the Saudis ended a 35-year ban on movie theaters and have begun getting the public’s enjoyment. AMC is betting that the industry will explode, expecting to put up forty additional theaters in fifteen Saudi cities. Why is this im...