The Magic Box (2003)

Over forty and in a bit of a midlife crisis Tunisian film director Raouf is prone to excessive drinking when not engaged in an argument with his Frenchborn wife Lou Marianne Basler One respite to Raoufs dreary life is a recent film assignment to shoot an autobiographical film about his childhood While working on the script Raouf recalls his childhood home life under the strictures instituted by his devoutly religious father The polar opposite of Raoufs father was his uncle Mansour a jolly lifeloving soul who introduced Raouf to cinema through his work as a wandering film projectionist which angered and shocked his father to no end but proved to be the most pivotal development in the youngsters life Through cinema Raouf found his place in this world and cameofage something he may have to revisit in his adult life if he wishes to salvage his marriage