The Snows of Kilimanjaro

MUST SEE: Robert Guediguian's The Snows of Kilimanjaro is a very powerful morality tale that started as petite bourgeois guilt as robbed Marseilles family found out that one of the man who robbed them use the money to feed his two younger brother as he has no other option. Inspired not by the eponymous Hemingway novel but by Victor Hugo’s poem How Good are the Poor, the latest film from Marseilles director Robert Guédiguian will strike many as old-school leftie sentimentalism of the most shameless kind. But, despite the obvious creakiness of its melodramatic narrative, there’s no denying the passion, big-heartedness and political conviction that go into The Snows Of Kilimanjaro (Les Neiges du Kilimandjaro). Official Selection 2011CANucr, 2012PALM, 2012SANF. RATING *** 1/2