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Salut Cousin!

1996, Movie, NR, 103 mins

Salut Cousin!: Review

Light and very slight, French-Algerian director Merzak Allouache's follow-up to 1994's BAB EL OUED CITY is a cheerful but only intermittently engaging look at the lives of Algerian-born Parisians. Alilo (Gad Elmaleh) is in "the bizness" -- that is, the business of traveling to Paris and smuggling out salable goods unavailable in his native Algiers. On this trip, however, he loses the address of his latest pick-up. So he spends five days touring the new, multi-culti Paris wit... read more leave a comment