New US Trailer for 'Casablanca Beats' - A Moroccan Hip-Hop Musical

"Hip-hop IS an art form, ma'am." Kino Lorber has unveiled an official US trailer for a Franco-Moroccan independent film titled Casablanca Beats, which has been shown for the first time at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival last year. It received pretty much only negative reviews from anyone who dared to see it. The film is a Moroccan hip-hop musical that rips out School of Rock and places it in the city of Casablanca instead. Anas, a former rapper, is employed in a cultural center. Encouraged by their new teacher, the students will try to free themselves from the weight of tradition to live their passion and express themselves through hip hop culture. With rapper Anas Basbousi, plus a group of kids: Ismail Adouab, Zineb Boujemaa, Meryem Nekkach, Nouhaila Arif, Abdelilah Basbousi, Mehdi Razzouk, Amina Kannan, Samah Baricou. I saw this at Cannes and was hoping it would be a lot of fun, but it's such a waste of a movie with poor performances throughout. Even though the raps are pretty good, that's about all this little movie has to offer.

Here are the official trailers (+ posters) of Nabil Ayouch's Casablanca Beats, straight from Twitter:

Former rapper Anas (played by a real rapper named Anas Basbousi aka "Bawss") takes a job at a cultural center in a working-class neighborhood in Casablanca. Encouraged by their new teacher, his students will try to free themselves from the weight of certain restrictive traditions to live their passions and express themselves through hip-hop... Casablanca Beats, known in originally as Haut et Fort (Loud and Proud) in French, is directed by the Franco-Moroccan filmmaker Nabil Ayouch, director of the films Mektoub, Ali Zaoua : Prince of the Streets, Whatever Lola Wants, Horses of God, Much Loved and Razzia previously. The screenplay is also written by Nabil Ayouch, in collaboration with Maryam Touzani. This premiered at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival last year. It has already opened in France and Morocco at the end of 2021. Kino Lorber will release Casablanca Beats in select US theaters (NY only) from September 16, 2022.

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