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The Mauritanian movie review: Tahar Rahim film alternates between a dazzling true story and a generic Hollywood thriller Firstpost 1 hour ago Tatsam Mukherjee © Provided by Firstpost The Mauritanian movie review: Tahar Rahim film alternates between a dazzling true story and a generic Hollywood thriller The year is 2021, and we have a courtroom thriller where a lawyer invariably ends up saying, "it doesn't matter what I believe, it only matters what I can prove". Said by Nancy Hollander (played by a no-inches-to-spare Jodie Foster), the line in The Mauritarian, is a hark ...
In non-pandemic times it would have been a royal funeral with full military honours By Isaac Bickerstaff Weirdly enough, the film isn’t much of an upper, as films go. The last third is especially hard going, when Mohamedou's amiable interviewers at Guantanamo give up, having got nowhere despite plying him with cake and tea, and cede the ground to the muscle men: army guys who know how to tear secrets from unwilling bodies. The torture scenes do a noble job of communicating quite ...
Tahar Rahim in The Mauritanian (2021) | STX Entertainment If the idea of being kidnapped and incarcerated for 14 years without being charged of any crime isn’t terrifying enough, imagine being held on an island hundreds of miles from home in a facility that epitomises horrible human rights violations. Kevin Macdonald’s The Mauritanian is the true-life story of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a detainee at the infamous American naval base Guantanamo Bay. Slahi had been on the American government’s radar for allegedly helping recruit hijackers involved in the September 11, 2001,...
LONDON: There were some raised eyebrows when the nominations for the 93rd Academy Awards included no mention of Kevin Macdonald’s legal drama “The Mauritanian” — but perhaps fewer than there may have been, given that the COVID-19 pandemic has (as in so many cases) restricted its wider release to streaming services, so audiences outside of America only now have the chance to see Macdonald’s adaption of Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s 2015 memoir “Guantánamo Diary.” “The Mauritanian” stars Tahar Rahim as Slahi, and chronicles his 14-year captivity in the infamous US military prison,...