About Barzakh
| Title: | The Dying of The Light |
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| Original Title: | Barzakh |
| Plot: | Unaware of the evil lurking around her, Farah makes the trip to the family farm to visit her uncle Rachid who has suddenly become very sick. Being that her uncle is her only surviving family, Farah plans to convince Rachid to return to the city with her so she can take care of him. But upon her arrival to the farm, she begins to experience unsettling psychic visions and a series of events with mysterious circumstances which pushes her to reconsider all of her plans and ultimately face her destiny. |
| Cast: | Fatma Nasser, Jamel Madani, Mohamed Sayari, Nour Bettaïeb, Oussama Kochkar, |
| Director: | Kays Mejri |
Barzakh
Shilajit Mitra
The Hindu
Fawad Khan grounds a bewitching, overblown saga
Fawad Khan and Sanam Saeed star in this feverishly artful series by British-Pakistani director Asim Abbasi
“The past is not dead. It’s not even past,” wrote William Faulkner. Everything in Barzakh — images, ideas, sounds — responds to that famously Faulknerian sentiment. The title refers to a kind of limbo, an earthly purgatory, where the dead move amidst the living. The six-part series has been shot in the ravishing Hunza Valley, in Northern Pakistan, and is drenched in a despairing, deciduous beauty. Characters converse in pseudo-spiritualistic fragments and heartsick hokum (and also do shrooms). Mountains, as usual, hold the key to everything. Watching the series, I found myself nervously wondering if, across the border, the director Imtiaz Ali was paying attention. What if he feels a little bested, and takes it up as a challenge?