Over a weekend in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco, a random accident reverberates through the lives of both the local Muslims and Western visitors to a house party in a grand villa.
Acting
Fiennes weaponizes pathetic entitlement like no other.
Cinematography
Morocco looks gorgeous; the humans ruin it.
Writing
McDonagh's dialogue cuts like expensive wine glass shards.
Director
John Michael McDonagh
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ralph Fiennes learned Arabic for the role, including a full burial prayer scene performed without subtitles.
The film adapts Lawrence Osborne's novel, which McDonagh discovered while literally lost in the Moroccan desert.
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