Derek Malcolm|Evening Standard
10 April 2012
This is not Tony Gatliff 's best film, yet it unaccountably won him the Best Director award at Cannes two years ago.
It traces the journey of two eccentric young French Algerian lovers from Paris through Spain to Algiers, the city with which they identify.
Although Romain Duris, the brilliant star of The Beat That My Heart Skipped, plays the boy and the fetching Lubria Azabal is the girl, neither is more than marginally sympathetic.
As usual, Gatliff fills the soundtrack with music, and there's a 10-minute Sufi ceremony at its centre. But for all its ferocious energy, Exiles lacks much in the way of the real dramatic power it seeks.
Exiles (Exils)
Cert: 18