But how long will his infatuation last as Mica High School becomes more and more distant? Leo’s still madly in love with Stargirl, even if the rest of the school starts to shun them both. They don’t understand why she insists upon cheering when rival basketball teams score, why she shows up to the funerals of strangers, or any of her formerly charming actions. Just as quickly as her popularity rises, however, it begins to fade when Mica High begins to question the things she does. At first the rest of the school isn’t sure what to make of the newcomer, but soon the student body is enchanted by her charm, none more-so than Leo. She wears unusual clothes (her mother is a costume designer), she carries her pet rat, Cinnamon, with her everywhere, and generally dances to the beat of her own drum. Everything changes when new-girl, Stargirl Caraway, arrives at Mica High. He leads a normal life, along with the rest of his classmates who try not to stand out. His elegant wife Mina (Lubna Azabal) runs front of shop.Plot summary: Sixteen-year-old Leo Borlock is a junior at Mica High School.
Like Daniel Day-Lewis’s couturier in Phantom Thread, Halim is an obsessive artist, refusing to use a sewing machine and infuriating his rich customers by keeping them waiting for his masterpieces. Ridiculously good-looking Palestinian actor Saleh Bakri’s handsome face is hidden away behind a caterpillar-like moustache to play Halim, a master tailor who makes hand-embroidered women’s caftans. But instead, the film’s director Maryam Touzani had put together a gentle, complex film: a love story between a gay man and his wife. It’s set in Morocco where homosexuality is a criminal offence, and for the first half an hour I assumed the emotional brace position, convinced it would end in arrest or worse for its lead character. T his tender and sad drama should come with the opposite of a content warning: a reassuring note at the start to explain that no physical harm or public humiliation will come to the gay men whose story we are about to watch.
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