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Writer-director Rachid Bouchareb's sprawling epic traces Algerian resistance to French occupation.

In "Outside the Law," the sprawling and at times emotionally distant epic tracing Algerian resistance to French occupation from early days to exodus, writer-director Rachid Bouchareb has, in a sense, told his own story. Born in Paris into a family that was part of the Algerian immigration wave, the filmmaker begins his story of three brothers in 1925 on the day when the French conscripted their ancestral farm in a desolate corner of Algeria. For the children, the loss is defined by their mother's weeping as she scoops dirt into a worn bit of cloth to take with them and their father's insistence that they never forget their roots. [...]

di Betsy Sharkey, articolo completo (3782 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 10 novembre 2010