Burnout

(2017)

★ 5.3 IMDb · 447 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 2017

Runtime: 112 мин

Country: Morocco

Director: Nour-Eddine Lakhmari

Cast: Sarah Perles, Morjana Alaoui, Anas El Baz, Mohamed Khiari, Ilyas El Jihani, Driss Roukhe, Karim Saidi, Fatima ezzahra El Jaouhari, Saadia Ladib, Badr Bouhaih

Plot

BurnOut is a film about the grinding down of hope by the contradictory values and morals of Moroccan society and how a mere chance encounter can throw everything that is taken for granted as normal and correct into question once one has glimpsed the possibility of the love and companionship that lies just beyond the walls of the Moroccan society. A shoe shiner Ayoub, a bourgeois couple, Jad and Ines in a loveless marriage, a wealthy but ailing art collector, and a young medical student Aida moonlighting as an escort, each interaction forever changing them and setting them on an irreversible trajectory towards catharsis or total collapse.