Alley of Fools
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Neutral, kinetic, measured drama / social, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Khadiga lives in a poor neighborhood with her parents. She tries to save up money so she could marry her sweetheart Taha. Taha buys a lottery ticket in hope of winning a lot of money, but it ends up in Khadiga's religious father's hands who throws it away. The ticket gets picked up by the town's fool, who gets lucky and wins, driving the town into chaos.
Our read · Alley of Fools (1955) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded drama · social · comedy entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Alley of Fools
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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