Driss is a jack-of-all trades type who sells fish from his car and moves furniture from one end of his hometown Tangiers to the other. His girlfriend is a free-spirited and wealthy European lass who runs an antique shop. One day, Driss becomes fascinated with Fouad, an old man who runs a rundown café by the beach. Fouad disdains his fellow Moroccans, calling them lazy, preferring the company of Europeans -- particularly, as Driss later learns -- young European women. Always on the make, Driss offers Fouad a business proposition -- to revamp his establishment and turn it into a proper restaurant with Driss as his business partner. He is later shocked and hurt to learn that Fouad starts to remodel his business but without Driss. Sending out his friends as spies, Driss learns a number of unsettling things about his would-be associate.
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Cast
27 people
Ouassini Embarek
Driss
Known for
Athena
Baise-moi
Jacques Nolot
Fouad
Known for
Under the Sand
Wild Reeds
Benoît Graffin
Known for
Cookie
Cyriac Auriol
Leïla Belarbi
Betsoul
Also in
Face to face
André Téchiné
Pauline Duhault
Delia Amrani
Zineb
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Mohammed Mrabet
Also in
Tanger - Legende einer Stadt
Béraud Valentine
Meriem Serbah
Malika
Known for
Demi-sœurs
Our Ties
Paul Bowles
Benoît Graffin Director · André Téchiné Writer Mohammed Mrabet Author
Worldwide gross $11K · United States release January 1, 2001 · Produced in France
Box office
Worldwide gross
$10,525
Production
Cinételéma
Production
Elia Films
Production
Les Films du Requin
Production
France
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Languages
Original title
Café de la plage
Original language
French
Spoken on screen
Arabic · English · French
Release dates
United States · January 1, 2001
Theatrical
Argentina
March 13, 2002 · Mar del Plata Film Festival
Canada
September 13, 2001 · Toronto International Film Festival
Czechia
July 10, 2002 · Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
France
November 9, 2001 · TV premiere
Greece
November 17, 2001 · Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Hungary
April 30, 2002 · French Film Week
Japan
March 2, 2007 · TV premiere
Sweden
January 26, 2002 · Gothenburg Film Festival
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