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Fatima is 16 years old and wears a veil. Her culture requires it, and her mother Amina imposes it on her. Born in Calabria to Muslim parents, the girl experiences all the conflicts and emotions typical of her age, but feels she is not like her peers: she is closed in her solitude, constantly out of place. Until one day the physical education teacher, Michele Scimone, suggests his students to sign up for the Sant'Antonio Marathon. For Fatima it is the first real opportunity to be seized. But for the teacher, a shy and depressed former runner, tormented by an unresolved past and a failed relationship with Anna, the veil that Fatima wears is a cause of prejudice.
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Muck on video has a very specific face in Italy and this film is yet another testimony to it. I ended up watching it by pure chance as the poster and the short presentation looked interesting. I must say that I couldn't tear myself away from it out of curiosity to see where it was going... Do I regret it? No, because every now and then I need to remind myself what happens to most of the funds for culture taken from my taxes. A first-grade script, a Giuseppe Fiorello caricatured to the point of being pathetic and a morbid emphasis on unmotivated drama destroy the potential of an enjoyable film that could have focused solely on the story of the protagonist, Fatima. Instead, no, the director (from whom I will make sure to stay well away in the years to come) decided to overdo it and with a tremendously irritating presumption. A missed opportunity on all fronts.