Hideous Kinky (film)

Infobox_Film
name = Hideous Kinky

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caption = "Hideous Kinky" film poster
writer = Esther Freud (novel)
Billy MacKinnon (screenplay)
starring = Kate Winslet
Saïd Taghmaoui
Carrie Mullan
Bella Riza
director = Gillies MacKinnon
producer = Ann Scott
music = John E. Keane
cinematography = John de Borman
editing = Pia Di Ciaula
distributor = Columbia Pictures
released = October 2, 1998
runtime = 98 min.
language = English, French, Arabic
amg_id = 1:173744
imdb_id = 0136244
budget = $12,000,000 (estimated)

"Hideous Kinky" is a 1998 film based on the novel, about a young English mother (Kate Winslet) who moves from London to Morocco with her two young daughters. It was directed by Gillies MacKinnon. The soundtrack was by the Incredible String Band. The film was marketed with the tagline "It's not just an adventure... It's a love affair."

Plot summary

In 1972, disenchanted about the dreary conventions of English life, 25-year-old Julia heads for Morocco with her daughters, six-year-old Lucy and precocious eight-year-old Bea. Living at a low-rent Marrakech hotel, the trio survives on the sale of hand-sewn dolls and a few cheques from the girls' father, a London poet who also has a child from another woman.

After the girls match their mother with gentle Moroccan acrobat and conman Bilal, sexual gears are set in motion, and he moves in, serving as a surrogate father. Julia's friend Eva urges Julia to study in Algers with a revered Sufi master as a school of "the annihilation of the ego", and in another sequence, European dandy Santoni invites Julia and the girls to his villa. As finance dwindles, Bilal's philosophy is "God will provide", although usually it is Bilal himself who provides. In the film's ending, Julia and the girls take a train to head back to London after Bea contracts a streptococcus infection.

Main cast

* Kate Winslet ... Julia, the mother of Lucy and Bea
* Saïd Taghmaoui ... Bilal, con man and acrobat
* Bella Rizza ... Bea, eight year old sister of Lucy
* Carrie Mullan ... Lucy, six year old sister of Bea
* Pierre Clementi ... Santoni, the European
* Sira Stampe ... Eva, Julia's friend
* Abigail Cruttenden ... Charlotte

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