Hideous Kinky is a 1998 film based on the novel, about a young English mother (Kate Winslet) who moves from London to Morocco with her two young daughters. It was directed by Gillies MacKinnon. The soundtrack was by the Incredible String Band. The film was marketed with the tagline "It's not just an adventure... It's a love affair."
In 1972, disenchanted about the dreary conventions of English life, 25-year-old Julia heads for Morocco with her da...
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Hideous Kinky is a 1998 film based on the novel, about a young English mother (Kate Winslet) who moves from London to Morocco with her two young daughters. It was directed by Gillies MacKinnon. The soundtrack was by the Incredible String Band. The film was marketed with the tagline "It's not just an adventure... It's a love affair."
In 1972, disenchanted about the dreary conventions of English life, 25-year-old Julia heads for Morocco with her daughters, six-year-old Lucy and precocious eight-year-old Bea. Living in a low-rent Marrakech hotel, the trio survives on the sale of hand-sewn dolls and a few cheques from the girls' father, a London poet who also has a child from another woman.
After the girls match their mother with gentle Moroccan acrobat and conman Bilal, sexual gears are set in motion. He eventually moves in with them and serves as a surrogate father. Julia's friend Eva urges Julia to study in Algiers with a revered Sufi master at a school of "the annihilation of the ego"...
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