Escape from Raqqa

Just when you think you're going to be getting a good old fashioned authentic home made falafel, they add to many other ingredients and dilute the flavour. This is a based-on-a-true-story about a French-African social worker who converts to an extreme branch of Islam and moves to Syria with her infant son in the middle of the war to live with Isis and then decides it wasn't a good idea once she gets there. Now that I think about it, the film might've made a better comedy. Anyway, the story itself is interesting but there are so many sub plots that the original idea gets lost in what was probably meant to be a global view of the situation, but ends up looking like a brainstorming session in a Turkish bath. More's the pity, as director Emmanuel Hamon delivers a film that looks and feels incredibly authentic.