Adieu Meres

Date: Thursday, April 2, 2009

Synopsis: A breakthrough film from Moroccan director Mohamed Ismail, “Adieu Meres” recreates a lost world of fragile co-existence in the newly-independent Morocco of 1960. This saga chronicling the friendship between two families, one Muslim and one Jewish, features vivid period details, including Muslim actors playing Jewish characters speaking the local Judeo-Arabic dialect. From its opening shot - where a Muslim delivery man makes his Friday afternoon rounds with Sabbath meals cooked in the local communal oven – “Adieu Meres”depicts a social interaction that has largely ended with the immigration of 95% of Morocco’s Jewish population. Set before that large scale departure, the film offers a meditation on what has been lost as well as a model of pluralism in the Muslim world that might be reclaimed.

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