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Kate Winslet as Julia
Saïd Taghmaoui as Bilal
Bella Riza as Bea
Carrie Mullan as Lucy
Pierre Clémenti as Santoni
Sira Stampe as Eva
Abigail Cruttenden as Charlotte
Amidou as Sufi Sheikh
Michelle Fairley as Patricia
^ Jump up to: a b "Hideous Kinky" . BFI . Retrieved 7 November 2021 .
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^ "Hideous Kinky at Box Office Mojo" . Retrieved 29 September 2010 .
Films directed by Gillies MacKinnon
Hideous Kinky is a 1998 drama directed by Scottish director Gillies MacKinnon . Based on Esther Freud 's semi-autobiographical 1992 novel of the same name , it follows a young English mother who moves from London to Morocco with her two young daughters in the early 70s. The film stars Kate Winslet and French-Moroccan actor Saïd Taghmaoui . The soundtrack mixes original music with songs from the 60s, including tracks from Canned Heat , Richie Havens , and the Incredible String Band .
In 1972, disenchanted about the dreary conventions of English life, 25-year-old Julia (Winslet) heads for Morocco with her daughters, six-year-old Lucy and eight-year-old Bea. Living in a low-rent Marrakech hotel, the trio survive on the sale of hand-sewn dolls and money 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. He eventually moves in with them and serves as a surrogate father. Julia's friend Eva urges Julia to study in Algiers with a revered Sufi master at a school of "the annihilation of the ego". In another sequence, European dandy Santoni invites Julia and the girls to his villa. As finances dwindle, Bilal's philosophy is "God will provide", although usually it is Bilal himself who provides. Sometimes he also disappears. At one point Bea contracts a streptococcus infection while he is gone and nearly dies. Bilal returns only to disappear again, but he has a plan. They discover that three return tickets that suddenly appear have been bought by him with money he got from the sale of his uniform. In the end, Julia and the girls board a train back to London.
Kate Winslet's performance won praise from many reviewers. In Entertainment Weekly , Lisa Schwartzbaum argued that Winslet "perfectly projects that naive self-centeredness with which a Woodstock generation of young wanderers, seeking spiritual revelation, made their way to cultures as exotic as their thumbs could take them". In Variety , critic Lisa Nesselson also praised the "radiant" and "sturdy" Winslet for her performance, and argued that the film was "filtered through a sober and intelligent artistic eye". Rolling Stone reviewer Craig Mathieson called the film "a compelling authentic journey".
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When her mother decides to take her and her sister away from life as they know it and move to Morocco, a five-year-old English school girl embarks on an adventure-filled romp through northern Africa.
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November 6th 1999
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(first published January 30th 1992)
0880016884
(ISBN13: 9780880016889 )
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Sep 22, 2011
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Quaint & beautiful. Why Kate Winslet played the mother in the film version after doing "Titanic" is obvious... this is an attractive role. The matriarch is positively enigmatic, & the little girls are total darlings. Morocco is a land of enchantment & magic (my one day spent there was one of my most memorable experiences ever), and just like that North African country of camels, couscous, acrobats, bazaars, scorpions, winding roads, this book manages to, in a little less than 200 pgs, cast one t
Quaint & beautiful. Why Kate Winslet played the mother in the film version after doing "Titanic" is obvious... this is an attractive role. The matriarch is positively enigmatic, & the little girls are total darlings. Morocco is a land of enchantment & magic (my one day spent there was one of my most memorable experiences ever), and just like that North African country of camels, couscous, acrobats, bazaars, scorpions, winding roads, this book manages to, in a little less than 200 pgs, cast one tremendous spell.
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There are so many many many many novels which are really memoirs and this is another. I guess they are all published as novels because a) If you make up stuff in a memoir and you get found out you get nailed to a wall and crows peck out your eyes b) People buy novels, not memoirs. A memoir screams MY LIFE IS REALLY INTERESTING WHILST YOURS FRANKLY ISN’T and a novel is like, I ain’t saying nuffin, I’m just here to cheer you up on a cold wintry evening, pull up a chair, light the light, it’s just yo
There are so many many many many novels which are really memoirs and this is another. I guess they are all published as novels because a) If you make up stuff in a memoir and you get found out you get nailed to a wall and crows peck out your eyes b) People buy novels, not memoirs. A memoir screams MY LIFE IS REALLY INTERESTING WHILST YOURS FRANKLY ISN’T and a novel is like, I ain’t saying nuffin, I’m just here to cheer you up on a cold wintry evening, pull up a chair, light the light, it’s just you and me for an hour or so sugar, whaddya say? So some time in the early 70s a hippy family jaunts off to Morocco then the dad falls out with the mum and goes back home and the mum then drags the two kids all over from Marrakesh to Algiers as she vaguely decides to be a Sufi or whatever else has flitted into her peripatetic brain that day. It’s all filtered through the alleged 5 year old girl but this is a 5 year old going on 11, I liked the voice of the narrator but it weren’t no five year old I ever met. That was more than a little bit of a stretch. The stuff they did was more of a problem. It was just the kind of crap anyone would do. You know, buy stupid bits and bobs, eat weird meals, meet random persons and be best friends for 48 hours then catch a bus to somewhere else. Go to a bank and hope the ex hubby or rich daddy has wired some money. It was What We Did on Our Holidays. It was like The Florida Project (great recent movie) – look, kids are good at finding fun almost anywhere. Kids are great at surviving the stupidest parents, and this parent was really most aggravatingly extra-stupid. Note for Kate Winslet fans : after Titanic , in 1998 Kate starred in the movie version of this book, so she plays a young woman wandering around trying to find spiritual enlightenment in Morocco. Immediately after she made Holy Smoke , in which she plays a young woman wandering around trying to find spiritual enlightenment in India. The way to tell them apart is that that which is merely hinted at in Hideous Kinky is fully revealed in Holy Smoke.
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You have to hand it to the Freud family. They know how to have colourful lives. OK, they come from pretty historically significant stock which tends to give you a bit of a leg-up in the interesting stakes. Not many of us get to have a historically renowned thinker for a Great-Grandfather or a famous artist for a father, both of which tend to get you invited to dinner parties on the grounds that you'll be a purveyor of fine anecdotal recollections about some hidden family eccentricity or scandal.
You have to hand it to the Freud family. They know how to have colourful lives. OK, they come from pretty historically significant stock which tends to give you a bit of a leg-up in the interesting stakes. Not many of us get to have a historically renowned thinker for a Great-Grandfather or a famous artist for a father, both of which tend to get you invited to dinner parties on the grounds that you'll be a purveyor of fine anecdotal recollections about some hidden family eccentricity or scandal. For my part my great grandfather was a shipwright and my Dad was Director of Prosthetics and Orthotics. Admittedly this meant that there were frequently large numbers of artificial limbs in the hallway plus a great many funny-but-not-while-you're-eating style medical stories to be had but none of these are going to put me on the society A-list. Luckily you don't need to invite Esther Freud to dinner in order to get all the crazy little insights and dark secrets from her family. She's provided many of them here in this nifty autobiographical tome about her itinerant childhood in the exotic perfumed bazaars and mystical Sufi retreats of 1970s Morocco. A delightful jolly through the sun baked alleys of a most unconventional childhood in a very British way. If this is not enough for you and you crave more Freudian family facts then you can always pick up a copy of Harpers Bazaar where sister Bella, now a renowned knit wear designer and avant garde society darling can be found discussing other elements of the family history.
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So many parts of this book were breathtakingly beautiful. The insights into Morocco as a whole are amazing and I found it so interesting to see how Morocco has changed since the 1970s. We follow a young, hippie mother and her 2 children Lucy and Bea as they navigate around the capital, sleeping in different places each evening, eating different foods each day, and interacting with a whole new selection of people every week. I don't think Julia (the mother) is particularly responsible or massively
So many parts of this book were breathtakingly beautiful. The insights into Morocco as a whole are amazing and I found it so interesting to see how Morocco has changed since the 1970s. We follow a young, hippie mother and her 2 children Lucy and Bea as they navigate around the capital, sleeping in different places each evening, eating different foods each day, and interacting with a whole new selection of people every week. I don't think Julia (the mother) is particularly responsible or massively bothered about the safety of her children, but sometimes you can tell that she really loves them and these moments are rather poignant as a whole. I would love to watch the Kate Winslet film now I have read the book.
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I'm not sure why so many people love this book. I see no reason to celebrate a flaky mother who neglects her kids. She annoyed me in her selfishness. No, it was more than that; I hated her. The story wasn't terrible, it just really bothered me. As the book went on, it was less adventurous and more heartbreaking. I wished I could reach into the book and slap the hell out of Julia (the mother). I'm sure I'm gonna piss off a lot of people who loved the book, but I can't see the beauty in neglecting c
I'm not sure why so many people love this book. I see no reason to celebrate a flaky mother who neglects her kids. She annoyed me in her selfishness. No, it was more than that; I hated her. The story wasn't terrible, it just really bothered me. As the book went on, it was less adventurous and more heartbreaking. I wished I could reach into the book and slap the hell out of Julia (the mother). I'm sure I'm gonna piss off a lot of people who loved the book, but I can't see the beauty in neglecting children to the point of starvation.
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A strange book in many ways; her first novel I think. Labelling it a novel does not seem right as it reads much more like a travel log of Morocco and feels autobiographical. I wasn't surprised therefore to discover that Esther Freud had lived there for 2 years as a child with her mother and sister. NB. The unnamed narrator of the story is living there with her mother and elder sister. It is in many ways life observed through the eyes of children – the narrator, a wide eyed little girl and her sl
A strange book in many ways; her first novel I think. Labelling it a novel does not seem right as it reads much more like a travel log of Morocco and feels autobiographical. I wasn't surprised therefore to discover that Esther Freud had lived there for 2 years as a child with her mother and sister. NB. The unnamed narrator of the story is living there with her mother and elder sister. It is in many ways life observed through the eyes of children – the narrator, a wide eyed little girl and her slightly older sister, who is rather hard and very cynical. I felt that the latter had been deprived of her childhood. This has, I suspect, largely come about as a result of living with her impressionable, hippyish mother. Bea (the name of the elder sister) is in many ways the head of the family unit. The young narrator “adopts” one of her mother's lovers, Bilal, as her father and the relationship between them is one of the best things in the book for me. Seeing him through the eyes of a little girl he is clearly very attractive to women. The story, if it is a story, is really a series of vignettes set in Morocco with all the colours, flavours sounds, smells etc of the country. Recommended for anyone wanting a taster of that country and life there. The title “Hideous Kinky”? read the book to find out. But don't get too excited...
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I utterly adore this book. The vibrant, sensory descriptions of Marrakech and Morocco are delicious to read, and the relationship between the sisters is realistic. The narrator (the unnamed younger sister) looks at things sometimes naively, sometimes with a wisdom beyond her age. I found myself empathising with Bea more - I suppose because I'm an older sister too, but also because she was very much like me personality-wise (the sensible one). Sometimes characters are introduced then tantalisingl
I utterly adore this book. The vibrant, sensory descriptions of Marrakech and Morocco are delicious to read, and the relationship between the sisters is realistic. The narrator (the unnamed younger sister) looks at things sometimes naively, sometimes with a wisdom beyond her age. I found myself empathising with Bea more - I suppose because I'm an older sister too, but also because she was very much like me personality-wise (the sensible one). Sometimes characters are introduced then tantalisingly whisked away, but overall it was an incredibly moving book.
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Not many adult books are written from a child’s perspective and not many of those books are good. This is. The narrator is a five year old who travels with her seven year old sister and her mother to Marrakech. It seems to be the 60s because everyone is very free. School? Not necessary. Brushing teeth? Not happening. Dentil problems due to not brushing? Oh well. Money to pay the rent? It will get here, eventually. The narrator chronicles the sister’s journey as their mother drifts around Marrakec
Not many adult books are written from a child’s perspective and not many of those books are good. This is. The narrator is a five year old who travels with her seven year old sister and her mother to Marrakech. It seems to be the 60s because everyone is very free. School? Not necessary. Brushing teeth? Not happening. Dentil problems due to not brushing? Oh well. Money to pay the rent? It will get here, eventually. The narrator chronicles the sister’s journey as their mother drifts around Marrakech. It is a delightful story full of other drifters, Moroccans, and children. It’s also full of the sights and sounds of the markets and hotels of Marrakech.
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As a reading experience, I'd give this 4 stars. We follow the travels of a young hippie mum and her two young daughters traipsing around 1970(-ish) Morocco. The story is told by the four-year-old daughter, which is part of the charm of the story, but is also the book's limitation. We only get the eyewitness account of the girl and never really know what motivates the adults - and of course, the girl never understands their actions or motives either. She is basically a
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