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.
00:15:55 Hello.
00:19:08 Fouad has no shame.
00:22:20 The furniture has to be disposed.
00:24:54 It's cursed. It belongs to the jinni.
00:27:28 Too eager to please.
00:29:45 That's all I need!
00:33:33 Making money does everyone good.
00:37:58 - Want some? - No.
00:40:30 Everybody is talking. You do know, don't you?
00:42:50 About men in general.
00:44:47 You don't have the courage to repeat that to Driss.
00:46:20 I know.
00:52:44 Don't believe that.
00:55:15 OK.
00:59:16 Why did you ask him that?
01:03:16 What's wrong with you, Driss? Why are you pouting?
01:06:12 But not to the beach cafe.
01:14:22 No, Zineb. I can't. Leave me alone.
01:18:31 It's not my fault.
01:20:11 You understand nothing.