Video: 'Monsieur Ibrahim' - Trailer No. 1

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In this meditation on happiness, religious tolerance and friendship, acting legend Sharif plays an Arab storekeeper in 1960s Paris who befriends a Jewish teenager (Dupeyron), and eventually becomes a mentor to the teen. -

Video: Monsieur Ibrahim

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:00:12 -0400

A boy from a broken home finds a friend in an insular, spiritual shopkeeper in this period drama from writer/director Fran ois Dupeyron. Set in 1960s Paris, Monsieur Ibrahim et les Fleurs du Coran revolves around Momo (Pierre Boulanger), a young man who lives alone with his father in the bustling Rue Bleu district. Still smarting over the separation from his wife and other son, Momo's dad neglects his son in ways both minor and major, to the point where the teen spends most of his time out of school alone and isolated. He finds an unlikely ally in Monsieur Ibrahim (Omar Sharif), a Muslim shopkeeper who spends most of his days behind the counter of his store reading the Koran. As time passes, Momo and Ibrahim begin to bring each other out of his respective shell, sharing a series of everyday adventures, culminating in Momo's indoctrination into Ibrahim's faith. Monsieur Ibrahim et les Fleurs du Coran played the {~Toronto} and {~Venice} film festivals; at the latter, Sharif was given a lifetime achievement awa

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Video: 'Monsieur Ibrahim' - Trailer No. 1

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