Hush Hush Baby
- warm
- kinetic
- funny
Warm, breathless, measured comedy / immigrant, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Abdullah 'Ap' Bentarek is happy that, unlike his Uncle Yusuf who stayed in the ancestral Moroccan mountain village, his father Ali moved to the Netherlands – even though it does mean that he’ll have to deal with lousy friends and unrealistic expectations at the employment office. A light-hearted portrait of the immigrant experience and the ubiquitous intolerance of the unfamiliar in Dutch society.
Our read · Hush Hush Baby (2004) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded comedy · immigrant · satire entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Hush Hush Baby
What watching it is actually like.
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