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Hideous Kinky is an autobiographical novel by Esther Freud, daughter of British painter Lucian Freud, and great-granddaughter of Sigmund Freud.

It is also the 1998 film, based on that novel, about a young English mother (Kate Winslet) who moves from London to Morocco with her two young daughters. Directed by Gillies MacKinnon. The soundtrack was by the Incredible String Band.

Taglines: It's not just an adventure... It's a love affair.

A Journey to Love.
Morocco 1972. It's not about escape, it's about discovery...

Plot summary

In 1972, disenchanted with the dreary conventions of English life, 25-year-old Julia heads for Morocco with her children, six-year-old Lucy and precocious eight-year-old Bea. Living at a low-rent Marrakesh hotel, the trio survives on the sale of hand-sewn dolls and a few checks from the girls' father, a London poet who also has a child from another woman. After the girls match their mother with gentle Moroccan acrobat and con man Bilal, sexual gears are set in motion, and he moves in, serving as a surrogate father. Julia's friend Eva urges Julia to study in Algiers with a revered Sufi master at a school of "the annihilation of the ego", and in another sequence European dandy Santoni invites Julia and the girls to his villa. As finance dwindles, Julia's philosophy is "God will provide", although usually it is Bilal who provides.

Main cast

Kate Winslet
... Julia
Saïd Taghmaoui
... Bilal
Bella Rizza... Bea
Carrie Mullan... Lucy
Pierre Clementi... Santoni
Sira Stampe... Eva
Abigail Cruttenden... Charlotte

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