Reviews

It's a really beautiful movie, especially the visuals. You don't see the typical Napoli, the one from the post cards or the tourism agencies. Instead you see the real one, the poor families, the mafia, the struggle, and most importantly, the desire of the people to survive. It felt so real, I never lived what the characters went through but at some moments, it really felt like the things on screen had happened to me before. The writing is also really good, the way the elements are brought is not heavy, and even if we don't have all the cards to understand at the beginning, we don't feel left out. Things we see at the beginning of the movie make sense when they happen, and even more sense once we get the full picture. It was also refreshing to see bits of Arabic culture, instead of having a really cliché view of it. I loved watching it, but i think if i had to watch it on my own, instead that at the movie theater, I wouldn't have been 100% focused on it and I guess I would have been bored at some point. Despite that, I still recommend it.

Really nice concept, really interesting, the only problem is indeed that at some point, it becomes confusing. At each scene, you have to guess in which time line we are, remember what happened to the main characters of the scene, but also sometimes to the other two characters. To be honest, at some point, I didn't know in what timeline we were nor what happened before, like for the whale scene. But other from that, understanding what happens is possible, and even if the characters are annoying at the beginning, they become really nice. I think it's really cool to have a romcom with such a unique concept, it really makes it special.