He’s the devil sitting atop Momo’s left shoulder, while a good doctor (Renato Carpentieri) and a gentle shopkeeper and fellow Muslin (BabakKarimi) join Madame Rosa on his more angelic right ... (PG-13 for some sexual material, language and drug material involving minors.) Cast includes Sophia Loren, Ibrahima Gueye and BabakKarimi ... 13 ... B- ....
(The story is adapted from the Romain Gary novel that also inspired the 1977 filmMadame Rosa, starring Simone Signoret.) Rosa persuades a friend who runs an antiques shop, Hamil (played, wonderfully, by Iranian actor BabakKarimi), to bring Momo on to help out, hoping he’ll help put the kid on the straight and narrow ... ....
Netflix ... (The story is adapted from the Romain Gary novel that also inspired the 1977 filmMadame Rosa, starring Simone Signoret.) Rosa persuades a friend who runs an antiques shop, Hamil (played, wonderfully, by Iranian actor BabakKarimi), to bring Momo on to help out, hoping he’ll help put the kid on the straight and narrow ... < ....
Upon hearing the premise of this film, involving an 86-year-old Jewish Holocaust survivor and a 12-year-old Senegalese immigrant, you might think you’re in for 94 minutes of sentimental drama—in some ways, maybe so, but in others not ... When he finds work with an Iranian rug maker Hamil (BabakKarimi, A Separation), he’s headed in the right direction....
In sun-kissed Bari on the southern coast of Italy, Jewish Madame Rosa (Loren) is a tough, regal neighborhood fixture with a particular calling. caring for the children of local sex workers out of her cramped apartment ... He responds well enough to the nurturing guidance of a rug-making Muslim shopkeeper (BabakKarimi) whom Madame Rosa sets him up with....