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Fevers

2014 · 90 min

A raw, slow-burning immersion into a boy's anger and a family's strain, emotionally heavy and unvarnished.

Directed by
Hicham Ayouch
Genres
Drama, Family
Starring
Didier Michon, Slimane Dazi, Farida Amrouche
Overview
Benjamin is at war: with life, with adults, with himself. From his earliest childhood onwards, the 13-year old has been shunted from one care home to another. When his mother has to go to prison, he is sent to his father, whom he has never known. The man turns out to be a dead loss, a warehouseman who's given up on life, a man in his mid-40s who still lives with his Moroccan parents in a high-rise block in the banlieue. Benjamin's turbulence and violence soon prove too much for his new family.

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Directed by
Hicham Ayouch
Genres
Drama, Family
Starring
Didier Michon, Slimane Dazi, Farida Amrouche
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How it feels

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Tone
  • bleakstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • isolation
  • coming-of-age
  • identity
  • class
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror1
Humour2
Realism9
Romance1
Tension6
Darkness7
Complexity5
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama, family
Directed by
Hicham Ayouch
Written by
Aicha Yacoubi, Hafed Benotman, Hicham Ayouch
Starring
Didier Michon, Slimane Dazi, Farida Amrouche, Emilia Derou-Bernal, Lounès Tazairt, Tony Harrisson, Pascal Elso, Mohamed Aroussi
Runtime
90 min
Country
France, Morocco
Languages
French

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