Beach Café
2001 · 83 MIN · IMDB 5.9 · 123 VOTES · DIR. Benoît Graffin
Overview
Driss is a jack-of-all trades type who sells fish from his car and moves furniture from one end of his hometown Tangiers to the other. His girlfriend is a free-spirited and wealthy European lass who runs an antique shop. One day, Driss becomes fascinated with Fouad, an old man who runs a rundown café by the beach. Fouad disdains his fellow Moroccans, calling them lazy, preferring the company of Europeans -- particularly, as Driss later learns -- young European women. Always on the make, Driss offers Fouad a business proposition -- to revamp his establishment and turn it into a proper restaurant with Driss as his business partner. He is later shocked and hurt to learn that Fouad starts to remodel his business but without Driss. Sending out his friends as spies, Driss learns a number of unsettling things about his would-be associate.
Dialogue Timeline — 582 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:09 BEACH CAFE
00:08:05 There's mint everywhere. Why ask me that?
00:12:35 Just a friendly comment, that's all.
00:14:11 Vice is in his blood.
00:16:01 You see that man headed for fishing?
00:19:10 That's why I don't greet him.
00:22:22 I get by.
00:24:58 If you see one surface, run away.
00:27:38 Is he taking you home?
00:30:00 Can't you see? I just got here.
00:33:39 Rent me a room.
00:38:03 It's good, but still a lot of bones.
00:40:48 A real nice place.
00:43:44 You're lucky not to know him.
00:45:00 Your friend thinks I'm not a man!
00:46:27 She's spending the summer in Kenitra.
00:53:14 They rented a room here.
00:57:11 I'd like to know what you like.
00:59:34 You're still young. And you slept with an old Fahsi.
01:03:29 So don't try to say...
01:07:05 Fouad... he's my friend.
01:15:31 I don't understand. Why did she do that?
01:18:52 You always wanted to shame me.
01:20:30 But I'll still be your friend.