TeenzTen An action-packed slog

ChicRawIdol A brilliant film that helped define a genre

SparkMore n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

Orla Zuniga It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

jesyrja Im writing an answer to another comment here about the movie. The movie isn't about dangers of smoking or history or anything the movie is about manufacturing hashish how it's done etc. There is many people out there who don't know how it is done. And for the people who know...They just know about the morocco and Moroccan hashish and are also curious about the Moroccan ways. If you want to see a movie witch tells you about the dangers of smoking weed / hashish well there are own documents for that.I would think that it would be also hard to talk about the history etc. because of the language barrier because this was a low budget documentary.

Alistraxo Papaskiri I usually don't write reviews here because of weakness in English language, but could do nothing after reading others'. Was sad to understand writers could not catch the point, so here I am.If you see the film thinking about cinematography, editorial skills and so on yes, probably there are some better films, but then you won't understand the idea, which is very well explained here. The people in the film are exactly same as in real lives. If you don't like landscapes taken, then it means you don't like Moroccan landscapes as they are shot exactly how they look in real. That's best work from the director and cinematographer in documentaries - to show everything like they really are.Seeing the film will not leave any doubts if life of the people shown is really like that or not. Seeing it you will trip through Morocco, talk to the people, real people, drink tea with them and yes, smoke some Hashish because only this way you will understand what it is all about.This is simply one of the most beautiful documentaries I have seen! No CGI, effects, deep editing, actor playing skills... this is documentary, not Star Wars.Many thanks to Daniel Gräbner!

oedipius i had a kind of mixed expectation before sitting to watch this documentary. i know that, haschisch has a part in eastern cultures. i have heard that here in turkey, people honor their guest by offering them "chocolate". the only normal dialog of the audience takes place between the non smokers; namely the father, the son. the father has prevented his son from smoking haschisch and the son seems to have benefited from it by attending a good school. he is ambitious and found his way to escape via education and employment as an electronic engineer. escaping is the keyword. throughout the film, the act of escaping is portrayed; some smoke, some illegally pass travel to other countries, some try to marry European woman etc. director of this documentary has chosen a meaningful path for filming haschisch escapes. with the mind of a smoker, all the long shots of landscape, all these nonsense dialogs between workers makes a sense in someway. a film about haschisch should be a film like haschisch.

notime4sanity Sadly, a pretty disappointing film. To me it seemed the filmmakers spent too much time sampling the product. Overly long, pointless landscape shots and mindless stoned musings by the locals could have been replaced with a little more hard information. It's unfortunate really because it seems like a good film was right there for the making, but the filmmakers either didn't have the ability or were too high to execute the task at hand. Because it is the only documentary on the subject (at least that I know of), I'd still recommend it to those who do have an interest, but be prepared for quite a few moments of tedium