The Perfect Candidate

It really liked it. It's not a doom and gloom movie -- it's about "how can you use your influence?"

What I appreciated about this was the subtleties -- she's doing things in small victories.

Mansour gives audiences a candid, often wryly amusing glimpse of life inside the Saudi kingdom, which is so often cloaked in opacity and menace.

…a real return to form for the writer/director Haifaa Al Mansou, a simple and effective drama that makes a succinct point; why should anyone accept living in a skewed, unfair world when we have the power to make a better one?…