My Favorite Fabric

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My Favorite Fabric

2018

1h 36m

Drama

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7 Reviews

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Fewer than 50 Ratings

A young married woman dreams of a better life.

Rebecca Harrison

Sight & Sound

My Favourite Fabric is a finely tuned film that ultimately empowers Nahla in her quest for sexual satisfaction and intimacy.

Oct 2, 2019

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Jay Weissberg

Variety

Uncertain and artificial, full of missed chances...

May 18, 2018

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Stephen Dalton

The Hollywood Reporter

An unpolished, underpowered, navel-gazing affair which strains too hard to map private emotional angst onto the genocidal horrors of Syria's civil war.

May 11, 2018

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Joseph Fahim

Middle East Eye

My Favorite Fabric is a film with a confused vision: a disjointed and, at times, inane affair that frequently descends into parody.

Jul 2, 2021

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Luis Fernando Galván

En Filme

In her debut feature... Syrian filmmaker Gaya Jiji focuses on the turbulence and fantasies of her protagonist to produce a devastating statement about the conflict in Syria and its effect on the women of that country. [Full review in Spanish]

Rated: 4/5

Oct 22, 2020

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Àngel Quintana

Caimán Cuadernos de Cine

The legends of The Thousand and One Nights are in a very distant horizon. [Full review in Spanish]

May 11, 2018

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One of the most beautiful movies I've seen last time, depicting the tragic mass military destruction of the Middle East so subtly and heartbreakingly through the lens of the love-craving young woman's life.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/17/23

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Synopsis

A young married woman dreams of a better life.

Director: Gaya Jiji
Producer: Laurent Lavolé
Screenwriter: Gaya Jiji
Production Co: ZDF, Les Films de la Capitaine, Gloria Films, Dublin Films, Das Kleine Fernsehspiel, Katuh Studio, Liman Film
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Arabic
Runtime: 1h 36m