SEX, OKRA AND SALTED BUTTER, 2008

Director: Mahamat-Saleh HarounStarring:  to fill is
From: France / Chad

sez says: this was a delightful story about an immigrant family. Malik, the traditional family patriarch and now expatriate living in France is lost when his younger wife, Hortense, leaves him --and their two young children--to go off with a man she has fallen in love with, and with whom she has a fabulous sex life.  Back home Malik hasn't a clue how to run the house, and he seems not to realize the woman down the hall, Mrs M..., has an active fantasy life about him.  He turns for help to his older son -- whom he discovers is gay.  Meanwhile his gay son brings a lost, homeless waif of a woman home for dad to shelter then discovers she is pregnant and the baby's father is AWOL.   This sweet comedy slips and slides along with plenty of giggles and smiles.  What I loved best is that there was not a single bad person in the story.  There were plenty of tangles and misunderstandings and  silly behaviors --but everyone was just trying to make their way in the world. Good solid acting too.  While it does not qualify as a fabulous film it is a well done pleasure and certainly worth seeing.   GRADE B-