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| Meet Aziz, Morocco's first ex-macho feminist! |
Aziz is a typical macho. He works as manager in a garment factory where he treats his - mainly female - workers in a very condescending way. He doesn't treat his wife much better. Actually he is arrogant to everybody who seems to be under his own social status. And he is servile to his boss. His free time he spends in a cafe with his friends.
One day, after a particular mean attack on her, the wife takes revenge by casting a spell on him. And then macho Aziz changes. For the first time he treats his employees as human beings. He also starts to treat his wife as partner and not as domestic servant. This starts to give him trouble with his chumps from the cafe, as he also spends increasingly more time at home. Aziz realises that something is wrong. He learns that he is under a powerful spell
He is fired from his job and at last this becomes too spooky for his wife. She confesses everything and is prepared to take the spell back, but Aziz is happy with things as they are. - At last his new way of doing things brings a big order to the factory, but the workers will only work for Aziz. he then becomes the Mam of the Year.
Of course, gender roles in an Arab society is a serious issue. Director Zakia Tahri puts his message in a pleasant wrapping. Nice work!
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