Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets

2000
7.3| 1h39m| en
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Ali, Kwita, Omar and Boubker are street kids. The daily dose of glue sniffing represents their only escape from reality. Since they left Dib and his gang, they have been living on the portside of Casablanca. They live in constant fear of Dib's revenge. Ali wants to become a sailor - when he was living with his mother, a prostitute, he used to listen to a fairy tale about the sailor who discovered the miracle island with two suns. Instead of finding his island in the dream, Ali and his friends are confronted with Dib's gang. Matters are getting serious.

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Wordiezett So much average
Raetsonwe Redundant and unnecessary.
BallWubba Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.
WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.
poe426 Life sometimes is a four-letter word. (More often than not.) The "enfant ensemble" in ALI ZAOUA couldn't be more perfectly cast (in view of the facts, in fact, better casting would be literally impossible). The nighttime musings of these kids as they drift off to sleep in the movie says it all: "When I'm dead, I'll be filthy rich." As mentioned elsewhere in these comments, I used to drive a cab. One night, I picked up a woman and three kids and took them from a very, very dangerous neighborhood to a slightly less lethal locale. The woman asked me to wait and left the kids in the cab with me as she ducked into a house. I waited (somewhat impatiently) and listened to the kids talking in the seat behind me. They spoke in awed whispers. "What does it look like?" "It's big- about this big." "What's it taste like?" "You'll see." I found myself grinding my teeth in anger. The woman emerged from the house and asked me if I could just wait a minute longer, that "he" was "on his way." I reluctantly agreed, but vowed that I would take my dispatcher to task for sending me on yet another drug run. The next thing I know, a pizza delivery driver pulls up. The woman rushes to him, pays him for two pizzas, and climbs back into the cab with them. I drive her back to her own neighborhood and ask her why she had the pizza delivered to another neighborhood. "Because the pizza guys won't deliver in our neighborhood." There are times, I swear, when it all gets to me. If you get a chance, see ALI ZAOUA and see what I mean.
lecourrierdemarco I really liked Ali Zaoua and I would recommend it to anybody. Great acting performance from such young kids. It's really a must see. It's well directed and the photography is beautiful. An incredible vision about street kids living in the ruins of Casablanca and a story about friendship and a good lesson about life. Said Thagmaoui is very good who personify Dib, a street Thug who's bullying a big bunch of poor kids who are dealing with drugs problems and beg for money all day long. I voted a 10 for this movie, but if I could've vote 11, I would've done it for sure. I even let go a couple of tears at the end. I watched it with subtitles, I don't know if a dubbed version exists, but, trust me, you must see this movie...
koenblomme3 It's the kind of movie that I like, when I saw the score for this movie, I almost got a heart attack, but what I wanted to say, I think this is a great story, (maybee such a low score because we don't realise the movie is playing today everywhere in the world) a dramatic story, but still it's dreamy, and I really didn't feel that bad after seeing it, I just knew what I had to do... It really got me thinking, and also the characters are played very good, (if you didn't know, this children are real 'princes of the road', and I really respect them. If u didn't see the movie, get it NOW!!!
anton-6 This film was great.Could be the best film I have seen in theaters this year.It´s about homeless children in Morocko living on the streets and one day Ali gets murdered in a violent fight.Suddenly there is a hope for his friends,they make up their mind to do a nice Funeral to Ali what ever it will cost.But soon they find out that it is not so easy...... The children acts so Masterful and that´s maybe because they play them self.The film is disturbing but still very beautiful and poetic.It almost brought me to tears sometimes.It´s not for children but adult and teenagers can see this fantastic film.I almost give this 5/5 it´s only some things that makes me give this a VERY strong four.4+/5