Rock the Casbah

I came across this movie and was taken into this beautiful depiction of life. and death, and love and everything what is to be human.

Moulay Hassan Ben Amor, a wealthy industrialist and father of 4 daughters has died.For his funeral all the family will be together.

Bring together members of a well-off family who've gone their separate ways with daddy's money (the altruist/good girl, the independent/artist, the lazy/narcissistic) around daddy's funeral, add a cheap sleeping w/ the maid / unknown half-brother/sister incestuous relation & a suicide plot and you've got enough material to last 1h45. The problem is nothing ever happens to make you CARE about the characters so 1 hour into the movie, after you've figured it all out and you give up on the story ever going past 2nd gear, you start guessing when will the brother/mother/sister/etc.

Back before Israel pulled all its troops and settlers out of Gaza, there were Israelis picketing with signs that said "If you flee Gaza, Gaza will pursue you." In fact, that is what happened.

Rock the Casbah starts out like a comedy. Sofia (Morjana Alaoui) returns home to Morocco for the funeral of her father, a wealthy but controlling entrepreneur who, despite dying, appears as a ghost commenting on the proceedings for much of the film.