The String
May 12 2009
•2h 33m
•Romance, Drama
Malik has a lot on his plate when he returns home to Tunisia after living in France. He's processing his father's death, he can't come out to his mother, and his childhood anxieties have resurfaced. But all of Malik's problems seem to fade away when he falls for Bilal, the dreamy houseboy at his mother's bourgeois estate.
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Claudia Cardinale
Sara
Antonin Stahly-Vishwanadan
Malik
Salim Kéchiouche
Bilal
Driss Ramdi
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