Hideous Kinky (film)
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| Hideous Kinky | |
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 Hideous Kinky film poster |
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| Directed by | Gillies MacKinnon |
| Produced by | Ann Scott |
| Written by | Esther Freud (novel), Billy MacKinnon |
| Starring | Kate Winslet, Saïd Taghmaoui, Carrie Mullan, Bella Riza |
| Music by | John E. Keane |
| Cinematography | John de Borman |
| Editing by | Pia Di Ciaula |
| Distributed by | Columbia TriStar |
| Release date(s) | October 2, 1998 |
| Running time | 98 min. |
| Language | English, French, Arabic |
| Budget | $12,000,000 (estimated) |
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- This article is about the 1998 film. For the 1992 novel on which its based, see Hideous Kinky.
Hideous Kinky is a 1998 film based on the novel, about a young English mother (Kate Winslet) who moves from London to Morocco with her two young daughters. It was directed by Gillies MacKinnon. The soundtrack was by the Incredible String Band. The film was marketed with the tagline "It's not just an adventure... It's a love affair."
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[edit] Main cast
- Kate Winslet ... Julia
- Saïd Taghmaoui ... Bilal
- Bella Rizza ... Bea
- Carrie Mullan ... Lucy
- Pierre Clementi ... Santoni
- Sira Stampe ... Eva
- Abigail Cruttenden ... Charlotte
[edit] Plot summary
In 1972, disenchanted about the dreary conventions of English life, 25-year-old Julia heads for Morocco with her daughters, six-year-old Lucy and precocious eight-year-old Bea. Living at a low-rent Marrakech hotel, the trio survives on the sale of hand-sewn dolls and a few checks from the girls' father, a London poet who also has a child from another woman.
After the girls match their mother with gentle Moroccan acrobat and con man Bilal, sexual gears are set in motion, and he moves in, serving as a surrogate father. Julia's friend Eva urges Julia to study in Algers with a revered Sufi master as a school of "the annihilation of the ego", and in another sequence, European dandy Santoni invites Julia and the girls to his villa. As finance dwindles, Julia's philosophy is "God will provide", although usually it is Bilal who provides. In the film's ending, Julia and the girls take a train to head back to London after one of them contacted streptococcus.
[edit] Trivia
- The title comes from a word association game the little girls play throughout the film. The words are totally unrelated, and the phrase means absolutely nothing, which is exactly what life is like for them: disorganized, with odds and ends just tossed together haphazardly.
- This film was shot on location in Marrakech, Morocco.
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