Mascarades
2008 · 93 MIN · IMDB 6.6 · 428 VOTES · DIR. Lyes Salem
Overview
Mounir Mekbek lives with his family in a small village in the heart of the Algerian countryside. Very proud and sure of himself, he has only one dream- to finally be appreciated by his fellow villagers. Screwing up his carefully maintained image is his headstrong, narcoleptic sister Rym who falls asleep anywhere and whom the village is convinced will end up a spinster. One evening, Mounir returns from town drunk and announces that he's found a suitor for his sister. The fake story snowballs and snowballs until the suitor morphs into a rich, blonde Australian. The village begins preparing for the wedding in earnest - but without a bridegroom in sight.
Dialogue Timeline — 890 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:26 Pull the wires over this way. Pull harder!
00:06:05 Turn it over.
00:09:37 If I succeed
00:12:49 Lazy bum, you mean!
00:17:18 Are the pastries okay?
00:20:42 Bunch of suckers!
00:23:40 - You know she doesn’t want to. - I’m the man in this house.
00:27:22 Think she’ll get better one day?
00:31:27 Mr William Vancooten!
00:34:46 This time, I’ll kill him.
00:37:27 Mounir made it all up. It’s impossible.
00:40:25 Your brother Rédouane is here. Just ask!
00:43:50 - Let her marry Khalifa! - Don’t you start.
00:47:43 He just called me. I’m up to my neck in organisation.
00:50:19 Of course. I’m meeting with him tomorrow in Algiers.
00:52:55 - Dinner at home... - Or at my mother’s.
00:57:24 Mum! Mum!
01:00:42 You want me to drop them?
01:04:03 You’d do anything for those idiots’ respect.
01:08:17 I don’t know, but at least we could try.
01:11:33 Rédouane Lamouchi! You were born out-of- date!
01:16:14 - I have to go to him. - You know where he is?
01:18:53 - Have you understood? - I’ve understood.
01:23:35 Stop!