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Adam

Adam

Movie · 2019 · 3 people

Spoken in Moroccan Arabic and co-produced by Morocco, France and Belgium, Adam is Maryam Touzani's 2019 Moroccan drama. On May 20, 2019, it had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival as part of the Un Certain Regard section. Although Morocco put it forward for Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards, it was left out of the final nominations.

The story takes place in Casablanca. Abla, who runs a small bakery, lives with her eight-year-old daughter Warda and is described as a widow. One day a young woman named Samia, pregnant outside marriage and looking for work and somewhere to live, knocks on her door, and Abla lets her in. As the two very different women share a home, a quiet solidarity grows between them in the face of social pressure, and everyone in the household begins to expect something different from life. Lubna Azabal plays Abla and Nisrin Erradi plays Samia, with Douae Belkhaouda as Warda and Aziz Hattab as Slimani.

Touzani wrote the script together with Nabil Ayouch.

DirectorMaryam Touzani

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Also in the cast: Douae Belkhaouda (Warda)

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AI-assisted editorial takes written from different viewer perspectives. They are not reader reviews; those are below.

Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

Maryam Touzani builds the film almost as a chamber drama: two women, a little girl, a bakery and a home. In such a confined space the dramatic weight comes not from big events but from small gestures, glances and silences, which places a heavy responsibility on the actors. The growing closeness of the two very different women played by Lubna Azabal and Nisrin Erradi is the script's real backbone. That Touzani co-wrote it with Nabil Ayouch helps explain why the structure is so disciplined. But that restraint has a price: for a viewer looking for plot, the pacing may feel slow, even static in places. Its screening in Cannes' Un Certain Regard section sums up well which audience it is speaking to.

History & Society Lens Asks about the period, the social background and what the work reflects.

Adam shows how a young woman in Casablanca who is pregnant outside marriage is left alone under social pressure, seen through the eyes of a widow who opens her door to her. Its strength as social commentary is the way it shows, without shouting, how the heaviest burden of honor codes falls on women's shoulders. Abla's small bakery is not just a setting either; it stands for the limited but real freedom of a woman who earns her own living. The quiet solidarity that grows between the two women stands out as a personal answer to social pressure. Because the film treats that solidarity within the rhythm of everyday life rather than romanticising it, it is convincing.

Family Viewer Asks whether the whole household can watch it; cares about humor and heart.

A quiet, calm film; the story as described gives no sign of violence. But its subject is pregnancy outside marriage and social pressure, so it is not for young children. Its slow pace may also bore kids. Suitable for teenagers and adults; a good chance to watch with older children and talk afterwards about solidarity and prejudice.

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