Monday, June 24, 2024, 8:30 PM, Vogue Theatre • Bay Area premiere
available in the Digital Screening Room streaming encore
⚠️Content advisory: contains disturbing images
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| The Judgment (المحاكمة) |
Mohamed (or Mo, as he now prefers to be called) has lived in the United States for his entire life, except the year he was 14, when he was sent to live with family in Egypt, an experience he has mostly purged from his conscious memory. A family emergency compels him to fly to Egypt, with his Egyptian boyfriend in tow. His mother needs him to sign some legal papers, but she refuses to see or even speak to him. He becomes convinced that a friend of his mother’s has placed a curse on him, and he goes farther and farther off the deep end, pushing away his lover, trying to break the curse. At the end, there is some resolution, but not nearly enough to redeem the film. It’s a weird, creepy religious horror film, which is not a combination I could ever imagine working well, even with decent acting performances, direction, and production. Not recommended.
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