The Damned Don’t Cry review – impressive tale of a Moroccan single mother and son living on the margins | World cinema
There’s a claustrophobic, smothering love between sex worker Fatimah-Zahra (Aicha Tebbae) and her teenage son Selim (Abdellah El Hajjouji), both forced to live on the unforgiving periphery of Morocco’s conservative society. It’s the kind of close but fractious relationship that comes from being a self-contained, self-sufficient family unit – mother and son are constantly on the move, fleeing debts, disgrace or the scandal that seems to trail after Fatimah-Zahra like a cheap perfume. But now they are out of options, and,…