Hideous Kinky

Gillies MacKinnon directed this $5.6 million production with a screenplay by his brother, Billy MacKinnon. The film adapts the 1992 autobiographical novel by Esther Freud (Sigmund Freud's granddaughter) about hippie misadventures in North Africa in 1972, as described by a five-year-old girl. ...more

Hideous Kinky offers a refreshingly laid-back look at life in the North African nation of Morocco. Maybe the film's tone reflects the hippy leanings of its protagonist. Perhaps it's a reaction to the overly mythological treatment the country and its most famous city, Marrakesh, have received in Beat literature and in movies such as The Sheltering Sky. Either way, the film paints a grounded portrait of Western individualism in conflict with the sometimes harsh laws of the developing world -- and ...more