Click here to copy URL

God's Horses

Les chevaux de Dieu

2012

Nabil Ayouch

Abdelhakim Rachid, Abdelilah Rachid, Hamza Souidek, Ahmed El Idrissi El Armani

7.1

1,542

Drama Yachine is 10 years old, he lives with his family in the slum of Sidi Moumen in Casablanca. His mother, Yemma, leads the family as best as she can. His father suffers from depression, one of his brothers is in the army, another is almost autistic and the third, Hamid, 13, is the boss of the local neighbourhood and Yachine’s protector. When Hamid is sent to jail, Yachine takes up jobs after jobs, though empty, to get free from the ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Deborah Young The Hollywood Reporter	"This is less a film about terrorists than an intimate portrait of boys growing up in a toxic environment."	POS
United States	Jay Weissberg Variety	"Four childhood friends from the slums are recruited by Islamic fundamentalists and turned into suicide bombers in Nabil Ayouch's affecting, strongly edited 'Horses of God'."	POS
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"A compelling contemplation of the roots of Islamic terrorism in poverty and hopelessness."	POS
United States	Farran Smith Nehme New York Post	"Director Nabil Ayouch does a remarkable job of putting you inside this brutal world, from the garbage dumps that serve as playgrounds to soaring aerial shots of the endless tin roofs that form their neighborhood. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"	POS

Return to movie

We encourage you to check the reviews' original sources. Intellectual property rights of these reviews belong to their authors and/or the correspondent media from which they have been extracted. If you'd like to help us to add more reviews to your favorite movies, just send us a message.