Filling the void left by his unaffectionate father, Momo bonds with the local “Arab” shopkeeper, Monsieur ... to bliss and the film into a fairy tale. All the wisdom Ibrahim has demonstrated ...

One of the most touching film incarnations on view recently comes in director Francois Dupeyron’s “Monsieur Ibrahim”–a gentle, sensuous French film about a Jewish boy’s rite of passage ...

“Monsieur Ibrahim” is a gem of a film that makes an understated, non-polemical case for the brotherhood of all God’s children.

The boy’s mundane adult life, glimpsed briefly at the film’s end, contrasts poignantly with the adventures of his youth. In French with subtitles. R, 94 min. The Reader is free. Producing it ...

At the same time, "Monsieur Ibrahim" - adapted from a book, and play, by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt - captures some of the wistful innocence of Francois Truffaut's "The 400 Blows." The film also tips ...

It is the title role of the heartfelt French film “Monsieur Ibrahim,” which is as intimate as the films that made him famous are epic. Eschewing vanity, Sharif appears his age, as a grizzled ...

“I am happy because I know my Koran,” repeats the Parisian grocer Monsieur Ibrahim. Monsieur Ibrahim, one of two central characters in the French-language film by the same name, does not have the ...

I just know what’s in my Koran,” Ibrahim says. But Sharif, much wilier, also knows that what’s in his script is a blessing for a movie star in winter.

The whole thing is brisk and amusing, and it very much captures the spirit of the French New Wave movement in film, which was at its height at the time Monsieir Ibrahim takes place. I don’t know ...

Monsieur Ibrahim In François Dupeyron’s sweet life-lessons drama, ... yet Sharif’s mischievous performance lifts the film above mere melodrama. (1 hr. 35 mins.; R) — BILGE EBIRI AND LOGAN HILL ...