Pressestimmen zu Mille mois - Alf Chahr

«Faouzi Bensaidi livre un premier long-métrage d'une étonnante maturité esthétique.» L'Express

«Das ist ein Film, der uns aufnimmt und mit sich trägt: Nehmen wir die Einladung zum Spaziergang an, sie ist es wert.»
Africulture

The Hollywood Reporter (Michael Rechtshaffen):
"Like the visually poetic works of the Iranian Makhmalbaf filmmaking family, the picture has a lot to say about politics, religion and social injustice, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for generous amounts of gently observed satire".

Variety (Deborah Young):
"… a feature debut of unusual sophistication and emotional resonance (…) brings a wisp of humor to a tale pleasingly grounded in authentic feelings".

The New York Times (Elvis Mitchell):
“The imagery in A THOUSAND MONTHS has a plaintive found-art beauty that Faouzi Bensaidi, the director, uses as an elegant contradiction to the deftly woven story lines. […] Impressively structured melodrama.”

INDIEWIRE (Howard Feinstein):
"Another good movie is "A Thousand Months," Faouzi Bensaidi's tragicomic coming-of-age tale of a boy surrounded by familial and political upheaval in a Moroccan village. This is an important work: A new wave is emerging from the Maghreb, Africa north".