Moroccan cinema saved by Faouzi Bensaidi.

Written by Allal El Alaoui

              Volubilis is a long feature film written and directed by Faouzi Bensaidi.It is awarded the first prize on the 19th edition of the national film festival in Tangiers in 2018 . In this edition, there are beautiful Moroccan films in competition just like the one of Narjiss Nejjar,  Nour-Eddine Lakhmari, Nabil Ayouch , Tala Hadid and others.

                Faouzi has shown to the Moroccan public that he is a master of  cinematic language and tools. In Volubilis, he plots and conveys a life of a romantic couple who trudges along to make love by trying hard to get it  in a mixed and poor family house, in a super market and in a popular restaurant  where the director always puts this couple  in clumsy situations ,and sometimes they want to make love only through looking to each other,because this couple desires just to get  kissed but they cannot   .

                  Ironically, at the end of the film , this couple kisses outside a classy villa where their love triumphs  against   a suppressed romantic love , already  in struggle within a sophisticated  society dominated by foreign powers see the influence of  the  globalization , and  fabricated by a local and  ferocious class ) see Moroccan "bourgeoisie" (.

             According to Adil Semmar , a cinema-goer and film critic , he states that Faouzi Bensaidi has honored and saved Moroccan Cinema from French "intelligentsia "  . The 17^th of Mars 2018 remains a memorial day for cinema and it is a Razzia of both french influence and mediocrity  and a triumphal day for Moroccan Cinema especially it is celebrating its 60th birthday .

             In his virtual wall in facebook , Adil Semmar says in French"  Une Razzia pour Volubilis qui a sauvé l'honneur. Sinon ça aurait pu être une Razzia pour le cinéma MarocKain"