DVD Short: Italian film superstar Claudia Cardinale (Fellini’s 8½, Once Upon a Time in the West) is still as steamy as ever, playing the mother of the complicated yet loving Malik (Antonin Stahly) who can’t come out to her even though he is falling in love with her houseboy, Bilal (Salim Kechiouche). Mehdi Ben Attia directs. In French and Arabic with English subtitles. 2010. TLA Releasing (tlareleasing.com).—by Nancy Ford
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