Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective
Young Ahmed
2019 film From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Remove ads
Young Ahmed (French: Le Jeune Ahmed) is a 2019 Belgian drama film directed by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. The film revolves around a young Muslim boy from Belgium who plots to murder his teacher in the name of his religion.[4] It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.[5] At Cannes the Dardenne brothers won the award for Best Director.[6]
Remove ads
Plot
Ahmed, a 13-year-old, plots to kill his teacher, whom he believes to be an apostate after being radicalised by a local imam. Ahmed is arrested and sent to juvenile detention, where he claims to be a reformed character.
Cast
- Idir Ben Addi as Ahmed
- Olivier Bonnaud as Caseworker
- Myriem Akheddiou as Inès
- Victoria Bluck as Louise
- Claire Bodson as Mother
- Othmane Moumen as Imam Youssouf
- Amine Hamidou as Rachid
- Yassine Tarsimi as Abdel
- Frank Onana as Fouad
- Laurent Caron as Mathieu
- Annette Closset as Sandrine
- Marc Zinga as Juge
- Ben Hamidou as Amine
- Monia Douieb as Amina
Reception
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 59% based on 82 reviews, with an average rating of 6.5/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Young Ahmed doesn't represent the Dardennes brothers' most developed work, but solid acting and a socially conscious story help compensate for its flaws."[7] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 66 out of 100, based on 21 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[8]
Accolades
Remove ads
References
External links
Wikiwand - on
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Remove ads