A Thousand Months is a rather earnest film from Morocco about a young boy coping without a father, while his village suffers from drought and oppression.

Faoud Labied gives a nice performance as the boy, and the cinematography is impressive, although director Bensaidi's tendency to simply plant the camera quickly becomes tiresome.

There is no plot to speak of, nor any exploration of the themes, so at over two hours long this collection of vignettes is just terribly boring.

David Haviland, 30.06.04