Marrakech Express (1989) User Reviews

An enjoyable on the road movie

[Andrea-monzani99 · 7/10 · 9 January 2022]

Marrakech Express is the kind of movie you watch to pass time. It does not demand effort watching it. Its bigger qualities are the music, simply amazing from Dalla to DeGregori; and the sense of the journey.

It is as typical on the road movie in which you do not care about reaching the end but about what you feel while traveling. This is enhanced by the fact that their hopes, and expectations upon the arrival in Marrakech are shuttered. It is all about the journey. Most importantly, Salvatores appeals to a large public by setting up some topos, especially for Italian viewers. Everyone, has good memories of highschool friends, and everyone lost contact to them through the years. Salvatores imagines a reunion. And as said in the movies "It is like we neve separated". The characters are fairly simple and do not go through an immense development throught the movie.

On the negative side, we have pay attention to how the actors are not used to their full potential. The cast is extraordinary. In my opinion with such a ast the director could have focused more on personal development of the characters.

Overall it is a fairly simple movie about a journey and friendship, that could have been more than that.

A wonder picture about man's friendship

[francescoilaria · 9/10 · 25 March 2002]

A group of (four) old friends have to help one of them which, run away in marrakech many years before, sent them a mysterious message. Since they were friends, four man's stories are changed and they are forced to start to Africa. But while journey they discover that friendship maybe is still alive and it is better than money, education, career. The soccer match that friends play against desert nomads is unforgettable. A surprise with sweet sadness for the final.

One of the best film I have ever seen

[agyanez · 10/10 · 27 September 2002]

I think this is the best film of Salvatores, better than Mediterraneo too. It always considered Marakech Express a film full of poetry and I feel joy and melancholy every time I watch it. This films seems to tell us that, in spite of time which goes by, it is always possible to live again feelings of our youth, if we really want it.

What is friendly?

[nexus23 · 10/10 · 22 April 2005]

My father always said to me : " Friendly doesn't exist " . Watching this movie you can get an idea of what friendly is , an union , a short moment thinking to make great things with others , feeling an adventure as when we were kids or students . All actors made a good job by interpreting the different parts of individual masks and human behaviors . Also it can be voted as road movie , a classic review of what Salvatores figured in a transposition of Kerouac's book and state of mind , although Marrakech Express is in a primitive state of "on the road" mind , compared to the beat generation bible . The ending scene is an answer to my initial sentence , personally , i add , it does exist but it is not as you can always figure out .