San Francisco Weekly
Reviewed by: Michael Fox
In the shifting sands of the Middle East, the only constants are faith and fables. They coexisted quite happily before the rise of fundamentalism, and they find a soulful commonality in Nacer Khemir’s nostalgia-tinged Bab’Aziz: The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul. The Tunisian filmmaker has conjured a unique and uniquely […]

Gambit Weekly / bestofneworleans.com
Reviewed by: Will Coviello
Director Nacer Khemir’s Bab’Aziz is a fable not about a (conceptually more Westernized) search for meaning, but a quest to have beauty and love revealed, in the sense that they represent spiritual truths to some Islamic mystics. Bab’Aziz is an old, blind dervish accompanied on his trek into the […]