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Rendition
Director : Gavin Hood (Oscar 2006 Best film in foreign language for “Tsotsi”).
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal (Oscar 2006 Best Main Man Role), Reese Witherspoon ( Oscar 2006 Best …), Meryl Streep (3 Oscars), Zineb Oukach
Production: Anonymous Content, New Line, Level 1 Entertainment (U.S.A), Dune Films (Maroc).
Distribution: Metropolitan
First presented: Toronto Film Festival, September 2007
World Première : October 2007
SYNOPSIS
Anwar (Metwally) is an Egyptian-born scientist who lives in Chicago with his pregnant wife Isabella (Witherspoon) and their young son (Knight). On the way home from a Cape Town conference, he's grabbed by US agents and, on the orders of a senator (Streep), ferreted to North Africa, where he's the centre of an investigation into a local suicide bomb. Douglas (Gyllenhaal) is the rookie CIA operative there, observing the questioning and torture administered by the local security chief (Naor). Meanwhile, Isabella calls in a favour from a friend (Sarsgaard) who works in Washington and can get some answers.
Despite a fairly simplistic script, Hood develops an intriguing tone, opening with a bewildering number of characters and subplots, including a pivotal young couple (Oukach and Khouas) dealing with love, extremism and emotive family issues. But as the film progresses, each character emerges in strong relief as part of a single narrative. The details of their lives and the events they face, however contrived they may seem, come straight from the news headlines, as do the shadowy workings behind the scenes. (…) Hood addresses the situation with raw honesty and gritty emotion.
(review by Rich Cline – Shadow on the line)
Director : Gavin Hood (Oscar 2006 Best film in foreign language for “Tsotsi”).
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal (Oscar 2006 Best Main Man Role), Reese Witherspoon ( Oscar 2006 Best …), Meryl Streep (3 Oscars), Zineb Oukach
Production: Anonymous Content, New Line, Level 1 Entertainment (U.S.A), Dune Films (Maroc).
Distribution: Metropolitan
First presented: Toronto Film Festival, September 2007
World Première : October 2007
SYNOPSIS
Anwar (Metwally) is an Egyptian-born scientist who lives in Chicago with his pregnant wife Isabella (Witherspoon) and their young son (Knight). On the way home from a Cape Town conference, he's grabbed by US agents and, on the orders of a senator (Streep), ferreted to North Africa, where he's the centre of an investigation into a local suicide bomb. Douglas (Gyllenhaal) is the rookie CIA operative there, observing the questioning and torture administered by the local security chief (Naor). Meanwhile, Isabella calls in a favour from a friend (Sarsgaard) who works in Washington and can get some answers.
Despite a fairly simplistic script, Hood develops an intriguing tone, opening with a bewildering number of characters and subplots, including a pivotal young couple (Oukach and Khouas) dealing with love, extremism and emotive family issues. But as the film progresses, each character emerges in strong relief as part of a single narrative. The details of their lives and the events they face, however contrived they may seem, come straight from the news headlines, as do the shadowy workings behind the scenes. (…) Hood addresses the situation with raw honesty and gritty emotion.
(review by Rich Cline – Shadow on the line)
Zineb OUKACH Biography
Born in the early eighties in Morocco, Zineb Oukach grew up in Casablanca, the so mythic city of North Africa that gave her name to the famous Bogart-Bergman movie. Maybe an early sign of her destiny…
She was very young fascinated by cinema. She had a visceral hungry for seeing as many movies she could, in a country and time where movies where rare, due to heavy censorship of the Hassan II reign, poor local TV programs and absence of satellite. One of her uncles, a cinema lover, made this birthing passion a little bit easier by letting her watch his heteroclite collection of tape recorded movies. She was spending almost all her free time watching these films, from famous Hollywood blockbusters to old European movies.
Her childhood was also a mix of different emotions and cultures, which contributed to build her sensibility. From Moroccan parents, she was educated in French schools. This made her learn both cultures, Arabic and religious through her parents, and French and atheist through her school. To a certain extent, she was however also lost between these 2 very different cultures, not knowing which were her true roots nor even mother language. Also politics were part of her childhood, with parents very concerned and defending all sorts of injustices in the world and had a certain admiration for famous French advocate Jacques Vergès, always defending lost causes. Zineb thinks today that if she had not become an actress, she would have been dreaming to be an advocate or a grand reporter.
As of the age of 16, she started to work as a photo model in Morocco, for magazines and advertising. Probably the only way for her in that time in Morocco to be in front of a camera. This enabled her to also know her first experience as an actress, for a TV commercial. Her passion started to become a reality, but although she was more and more dreaming of becoming a professional actress, she felt it too far away to truly believe in it.
More realistically, she starts a degree in economics in Morocco, and leaves the country after this at the age of 22 to study in France (Nancy) to obtain a Master degree in Marketing and Communications. But more and more, month after month, she realized that her life was not in business but in cinema. After just a year in Nancy, she decides to take the risk of her passion and go in Paris, to learn acting.
Zineb becomes a student at Eva Saint Paul Theater School and then at the famous Cours Florent, recommended by a few friends she starts to get in the acting field. But she realizes that the system didn’t fit her needs and personality. She follows in parallel a few sessions with Jack Waltzer, from Actors Studio, where she learns the American method, which she felt much closer to, and very different from all her learnings so far.
In September 2006, one of her teacher of Cours Florent calls her to go to a casting for an American movie. Without really believing but with all hope of her heart, she goes there and meets Gavin Hood, who immediately hires her for the role of Fatema in Rendition, together with famous and Oscar winning actors Streep, Gyllenhaal and Witherspoon.
This was just the beginning of a dream come true, for a passionate and sensible cinema lover.
Zineb hopes her performance in Rendition and her beginning visibility will give her the opportunity to be seen and selected by the best directors, be it in Hollywood or more engaged cinema style that fits her complex personality of modern and multicultural Arab woman. Very understandable with her multicultural origin, Zineb feels indeed both a modern occidental woman, and an Arab woman from an emerging country. She feels very close to all Arab women in the world and is passionate about defending their rights to more and more freedom in Muslim countries. In a sense, she is the Muslim woman of tomorrow. Or maybe even more, with her many cultures, just like world-music, a real “world-woman”.
She was very young fascinated by cinema. She had a visceral hungry for seeing as many movies she could, in a country and time where movies where rare, due to heavy censorship of the Hassan II reign, poor local TV programs and absence of satellite. One of her uncles, a cinema lover, made this birthing passion a little bit easier by letting her watch his heteroclite collection of tape recorded movies. She was spending almost all her free time watching these films, from famous Hollywood blockbusters to old European movies.
Her childhood was also a mix of different emotions and cultures, which contributed to build her sensibility. From Moroccan parents, she was educated in French schools. This made her learn both cultures, Arabic and religious through her parents, and French and atheist through her school. To a certain extent, she was however also lost between these 2 very different cultures, not knowing which were her true roots nor even mother language. Also politics were part of her childhood, with parents very concerned and defending all sorts of injustices in the world and had a certain admiration for famous French advocate Jacques Vergès, always defending lost causes. Zineb thinks today that if she had not become an actress, she would have been dreaming to be an advocate or a grand reporter.
As of the age of 16, she started to work as a photo model in Morocco, for magazines and advertising. Probably the only way for her in that time in Morocco to be in front of a camera. This enabled her to also know her first experience as an actress, for a TV commercial. Her passion started to become a reality, but although she was more and more dreaming of becoming a professional actress, she felt it too far away to truly believe in it.
More realistically, she starts a degree in economics in Morocco, and leaves the country after this at the age of 22 to study in France (Nancy) to obtain a Master degree in Marketing and Communications. But more and more, month after month, she realized that her life was not in business but in cinema. After just a year in Nancy, she decides to take the risk of her passion and go in Paris, to learn acting.
Zineb becomes a student at Eva Saint Paul Theater School and then at the famous Cours Florent, recommended by a few friends she starts to get in the acting field. But she realizes that the system didn’t fit her needs and personality. She follows in parallel a few sessions with Jack Waltzer, from Actors Studio, where she learns the American method, which she felt much closer to, and very different from all her learnings so far.
In September 2006, one of her teacher of Cours Florent calls her to go to a casting for an American movie. Without really believing but with all hope of her heart, she goes there and meets Gavin Hood, who immediately hires her for the role of Fatema in Rendition, together with famous and Oscar winning actors Streep, Gyllenhaal and Witherspoon.
This was just the beginning of a dream come true, for a passionate and sensible cinema lover.
Zineb hopes her performance in Rendition and her beginning visibility will give her the opportunity to be seen and selected by the best directors, be it in Hollywood or more engaged cinema style that fits her complex personality of modern and multicultural Arab woman. Very understandable with her multicultural origin, Zineb feels indeed both a modern occidental woman, and an Arab woman from an emerging country. She feels very close to all Arab women in the world and is passionate about defending their rights to more and more freedom in Muslim countries. In a sense, she is the Muslim woman of tomorrow. Or maybe even more, with her many cultures, just like world-music, a real “world-woman”.
Zineb OUKACH Filmography
2005- Respectable Family (TV series), dir. Kamal Kamal (secondary role)
2005- Parfum de Mer (pictures film), dir. A. Laraki (main role)
2007- Rendition (pictures film), dir. Gavin Hood (lead role)
2005- Parfum de Mer (pictures film), dir. A. Laraki (main role)
2007- Rendition (pictures film), dir. Gavin Hood (lead role)
Zineb OUKACH Actress
Zineb OUKACH Actress
Zineb OUKACH Toronto Film Festival
Zineb OUKACH Toronto Film Festival
Zineb OUKACH Rendition Set
Zineb OUKACH Rendition Set
Zineb OUKACH Rendition Set
Zineb OUKACH Rendition Set
Zineb OUKACH Rendition Set
Zineb OUKACH Rendition Set
9 comments:
I saw the film but am not a huge fan of the politics being discussed. I think the classic line in the movie is "7,000 people are alive tonight in London because of information we gathered just this way", and then the response is something like "what if it were your grandson being interigated". I thought they could come up with better than that. Without getting too far off the question here, I think she is beautiful. I never thought that unveiling her hair taking off her head cover could be so hot! I heard she is casting for a Bond movie, is this true?
She would make a hot bond girl. I would see that.
I have not seen anything on casting for Bond.
Great actress ! She's been able to make her character one of the most impressive in the film. I bet she'll become a star very fast. Hope americans will be smart enough to nominate her for oscars. What a great sign also for US to give an oscar to an arab woman !!! Thats the kind of things hollywood could be proud of !
she's a beauty. a hybrid arab beauty. she did well on her first movie and yeah i hope she'll be on the top one day. this is something to be proud of. she's just rare.
she was great, so impressive and terrific, i looked up for some information on her on IMDB, but i did not find any, i would like to know more information about her,
Very good actress! Hope to see in other movies, will be looking forward to that!
she is a very good actress, like Moa Khouas.
Their Lovestory is so cute... but very sad, too.. I LOVE THEM TWO
Stunningly beautiful and pleasure to watch. When I saw her in "Rendition" I thought she was an already acomplished and experienced actress. Didn't know that was her first feature. Beauty and character, what more can one ask for?
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