Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2012)
Directed by Lasse Hallström
A fisheries expert is approached by a consultant to help realize a sheik's vision of bringing the sport of fly-fishing to the desert and embarks on an upstream journey of faith and fish to prove the impossible possible.
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Waked's character is more like a mystic-but-not-overtly religious ("faith" is mentioned; "Allah" is not) riff on, say, Burt Lancaster 's dreamer in " Local Hero ," even with the addition of local anti-Western forces dead set against the salmon project.
As adapted from the Paul Torday novel by Oscar winning screenwriter Simon Beaufoy ("The Full Monty," "Slumdog Millionaire"), this one plays like "Local Hero" crossed with a less profane "In the Loop."
If you like this, try: “Chocolat” and “Local Hero” and the novel by Paul Torday…
Clearly, we’re meant to be back in the (literal) fish-out-of-water territory of “Local Hero,” or “The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain.”
Like “A River Runs through It,” this Lasse Hallström film incorporates fishing as metaphor, with shots of salmon, the river, and fly-fishing running intermittently through the narrative so that it becomes both a motif and a relaxing thread that ties it all together.