Barakah Meets Barakah

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Barakah Meets Barakah

2016

1h 28m

Drama

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A middle-class man and a woman from a wealthy family fall in love.

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Radheyan Simonpillai

NOW Toronto

09/09/2016

4/5

The film is critical of oppressive customs and even a bit tragic, but it's also joyful, investing its hopes in characters representing a new generation that is too fun and sassy to be ignored.

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Jordan Hoffman

Guardian

09/09/2016

3/5

There's a great deal of visual sizzle, as well as sadness.

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Alissa Simon

Variety

09/09/2016

A smart, charming, and bittersweet tale about the Kingdom's millennial generation and their take on the social and political restrictions that stand in the way of meeting and mingling with the opposite sex.

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Joni Blyth

One Room With A View

03/13/2019

4/5

A must-see for all fans of the genre.

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Ethan Vestby

Cinema Scope

10/16/2017

It speaks to Sabbagh's talent that he can finally administer such a light touch to a movie whose romantic leads so self-consciously bear the burdens of generational and national identity.

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Kent Turner

Film-Forward.com

09/21/2016

2.5/4

... one of the more pointedly political Middle Eastern films that have played the festival circuit recently, and that's saying something.

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03/07/2018

Perhaps the only Saudi movie I have watched. A nostalgic and pointed criticism of the direction civil society has taken in Saudi, interspersed with an endearing romantic comedy about two ordinary individuals. Both my wife and I loved this movie. A window into life in that country one would not usually get the chance to see.

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Synopsis

A middle-class man and a woman from a wealthy family fall in love.

Director: Mahmoud Sabbagh
Producer: Mahmoud Sabbagh
Screenwriter: Mahmoud Sabbagh
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Arabic
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 12, 2017
Runtime: 1h 28m

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