Is Amal worth watching?
100
MasterpieceGoodWatch scoreYes, it's widely acclaimed, with a GoodWatch score of 100.
Amal
1960·Movie
100
MasterpieceGoodWatch score100
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About
A sublime documentary on childhood and bereavement that’s one of several shorts the filmmaker completed while working in Algeria for Georges Derocles’s company Les Studios Africa, for whom he would shortly make his breakthrough feature The Olive Trees of Justice.
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Questions about Amal
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Is Amal in English?
French
No, it was made in French.
What tropes does Amal use?
Honorary UncleCrapsaccharine WorldKick the DogLaser-Guided KarmaOffscreen TeleportationThe Bad Guy WinsNever Learned to ReadBeing Good SucksUnexpected InheritanceGenre DeconstructionStupid GoodPosthumous Narrationand 18 more
TV Tropes lists 30 tropes for it, including Honorary Uncle, Crapsaccharine World, and Kick the Dog.