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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen@siirif1762d

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen is one of those little movies that could. And it seems at first that Salmon Fishing will be an updated quirky British comedy-satire in the vein of a good Ealing style British comedy, specifically Alec Guinness’ The Man in the White Suit. The role of the eccentric inventor is sort of recalled by Ewan McGregor’s character, Dr. Alfred Jones. Jones is a fish expert who works for the British fishery department. He’s a nerdish fellow who is an expert in all things fish-related and has on the side invented a popular fishing lure he named the ‘Willy Jones’.

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Sheikh Muhammad (Amr Waked) is an extremely wealthy member of Yemen royalty who loves to fish for salmon and has decided that he will spend tens of millions of dollars to irrigate part of his mostly desert homeland so that he can introduce Salmon fishing. He has good relations with the British government and so they humor him by assigning Dr. Alfred Jones to do a feasibility study. Naturally Jones thinks the idea is utterly ridiculous. But, the British prime minister’s assistant, Patricia Maxwell (Kristin Scott Thomas) is being pressured to find an upbeat story to counter negative stories about Arab/British relations to the media. She stumbles upon the story of the Sheikh who wants to bring water and Salmon Fishing to his homeland.

Harriet Chetwode-Talbot (Emily Blunt) is a young financial advisor who has become part of the Sheik Muhammed’s team who is working on the details of the project. Keeping the Sheikh as happy as possible is her priority number one. And so she meets with Alfred Jones to make sure he takes his task seriously and does everything he can to try and make Muhammed’s seemingly impossible dream become a reality. When the task becomes a priority for the Prime Minister, Jones with Harriet Chetwode-Talbot go off to meet the Sheikh who is a charming, charismatic man who is capable of spending what it takes to make his dream into a reality.

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However, besides the nearly impossible and very expensive task of trying to create conditions where Salmon might live and spawn and create new generations of Salmon there are several problems. The poor citizens of Yemen do not believe the Sheik should spend his money on his hobby project and there is growing unrest which leads to an assassination attempt. The British government has run into serious problems as well. It seems there are a very large number of serious fishing hobbyists and ecologist types who don’t think it is a good idea to try and capture 100,000 British Salmon and attempt to transport them to Yemen. They will deplete the British supply, potential affect the British eco-system AND most likely die in the attempt to get them to Yemen.

There is a romance brewing as well. An unlikely one—but more likely than say making it possible to have Salmon in the Yemen, between Dr. Jones and Ms. Chetwode-Talbot. Jones is married and Harriet has a serious relationship to a soldier (Tom Mison) who has left to fight in Afghanistan. They are attracted to each other but certainly do not act on it. However even the Sheikh feels there is something in the air between them and makes a comment about it which he then humbly apologize for (‘sticking my feet in it..).

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The tone set by director Lasse Halstrom (Chocolat) is one of slightly off-beat heartwarming romance. The little quirky touches and unique premise don’t develop into a full blown madcap comedy like it might have if something like Alec Guinness’ The Man in the White Suit were truly its model. The eccentricities of the characters remain sweet and whimsical. The Sheikh is not just a spoiled rich guy with an eccentric idea, but he has a bigger vision. Screenwriter Simon Beaufoy backs away from anything that might be critical or even satiric of Arab/British relations. The comedy stays in the comfortable realm of look how slow and stodgy British bureaucracy is and how silly and clueless these over-mannered British folks are. I’m glad we avoided strained and silly slapstick, but the missed opportunities for witty satire disappoint.

Kristin Scott Thomas as the very efficient, aggressive assistant to the prime minister easily steals the movie with her hyper-energetic performance that snaps you instantly wide awake when she makes her appearances on screen. She’s a great counterpoint to the rather slow pace the film settles into. The sappy score by Dario Marianelli lulls us into the sweet rom-com mood even though the movie only becomes fully committed to being a traditional rom-com in its last third.

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Salmon Fishing in Yemen is one of those movies that could. It could have been better, but it’s a pleasant film whose interesting premise and first 45 minutes unfortunately are the best part. It doesn’t get terrible it just plays out in an almost entirely predictable manner. Its quirkiness sort of stops and dissolves just past the hour mark easing into standard rom-com predictability. Excellent acting from the leads keep it on the recommended list.

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›[Films Critics] Salmon Fishing in the Yemen@jsxchemistry2441d
I rarely get hooked on watching movies with stories that don't have so much risk, movies whose plots can be considered flat and lack of surprises or a distinctive climax, but sometimes I find stories that only through the cinematography and how well done they are, they make me enjoy them and this is precisely the case of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, a slow and extensive story that according to the point of view you see it is quite entertaining.

[Source](https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/81025-salmon-fishing-in-the-yemen?language=en-US) # # Going deeper into story. # The story of this film has many technical, political and environmental elements that we will have to assimilate at the same time that we follow the story of a fish expert who was charged with the task of recreating the wild ecosystem of salmon in a desert so that in addition to promoting the proliferation of fish in that arid zone it is also possible to develop the sport of hunting these fish. In theory, it sounds anti environmentalist to want to build a complete ecosystem of salmon just to be able to do sport with them by fishing them but believe me it is not like that, on the contrary the story takes a beautiful rhythm because everything is driven by the desires of a really rich man whose dream is to recreate a sport that he loves in his native country, a country with hundreds of political and social problems but that he believes he can help through the reproduction of an animal that besides serving as entertainment can also serve as a source of economic recovery for Yemen. #
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# Through the minutes we will see all the political difficulties that the protagonists will have to face constantly to fulfill the dream of taking salmon to the desert, complications that seem to be directed to attack them and to avoid that the man who finances everything fulfills his dream, and not only that but also that they will have to fight with nature, after all to adapt an animal to an ecosystem and to a new environment is not simple at all.
The rhythm of the story is perfectly developed and rarely falls into the boring, rather try to jump quickly the technical scenes and complement them with continuous footage recorded at different angles that give a great appearance to the scenes.

Fighting against nature.

The main premise of the film is to make the transition from salmon to Yemen as successful as possible and to ensure that their way of life is not affected at all, that is why we will see constant stressful moments where the film becomes very dramatic because of the different failed attempts to make the fish accept their new home, something that will constantly affect the life of the characters making them doubt and putting them in frequent situations of defeat where they believe it would be best to give up and not go against the usual nature of fish. However, it is through those moments that the film stands out more because we see the different internal struggles of the characters to take the project forward and to fulfill a dream that is no longer just the dream of the man who finances everything but them as well.

The film is full of actors and brilliant interpretations, there are not many characters who have the time to stand out but nevertheless they do it in the little time they have thanks to how quickly they mimic themselves in their role and in the ability they have to transmit what has been asked of them. Good performances that are undoubtedly complemented by a whole mystical aura created through different elements of Arab culture that give a great tone to the film making it look like a somewhat fantasy production when in reality nothing is.

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An intelligent film, seasoned with phenomenal technical resources where the power of believing is the protagonist and where the protagonists stand out precisely for that, for showing a clear message; never say that something is impossible until you try.

My Score: 7,2/10
# * **Movie URL:** https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/81025-salmon-fishing-in-the-yemen?language=en-US * **Critic: AAA**
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›"Salmon Fishing in the Yemen" by Lasse Hallström - movie review@godflesh2880d
I love to watch Lasse Hallström's movies. His name has been a special sign of a landmark since the early 1990s - the time of " What's Eating Gilbert Grape" your beloved of all "Chocolate" ;), "The Shipping News" with the superb Kevin Spacey and Judy Dench, the intriguing "Casanova", the fairly narrative "An Unfinished Life" with the always brilliant Robert Redford, and closing our eyes on the oversold sweetheart of "Dear John" ... So we get to his latest work "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen ", which looks like a fairy tale - a breath. The movie is fun - laughs sincerely, but delicately; enjoys very good acting, and if we allow ourselves not to think too deeply - we may even swallow the excessive predictability of the final episodes.

An inspired sheik (the impressive sapphire eyes of Egyptian actor Amr Wakefield decides to explore the question of whether the entire ecosystem of Yemen can change so that salmon is grown there, a pretty crazy idea, is not it? fish farming (all) and salmon lives Dr. Alfred Jones (starring Ewan McGregor) who explains with fun pictures the temperature and oxygen requirements for the normal development of the fish-traveler. and the interests of the Sheikh in the UK - Harriet (Emily Blunt), which transmits the financial parameters of her employer's hypothetical-fantasy project, and as a result the sheik invites Dr. Jones to visit her Scottish mansion and explains to him that he is being pushed not only by egotistical motives (to practice the hobby), but also by willingness to engage their subjects in a slightly different way of life, to create livelihood, to change their thinking, to bla bla, and to all sorts of similar altruistic explanations. Forced by his bosses and subsequently ambitious - mostly because of the apparent improbability of such a project, Dr. Jones has been stepping up. An additional "fuel" in his thirst for success poured the frigid disinterest of his own wife and the sympathetic, energetic Harriet. But in the meantime, she is shocked by the news that her three-week-old boyfriend may have died during a campaign in Afghanistan. Oh, forgive - we slowed down in the clarification WHY this action is happening with the fish: in general, because the British Prime Minister's press officer ("irony," delightful to his image, Christine Scott Thomas!) Is also needed "good news from Middle East"!

Maybe here I have to look for some of my dissatisfaction - I was expecting the joking criticism, which tends to ironic, sarcastically colored, to be more categorical in the face of the famous political manipulation. I did not like this part of the story that was the last-most press-script scenario - and I do not think I can explain why "exactly", I just "falsely" sounded this thread of the plot as a thinly-made sugar cotton. It was not my taste for the moralizing sermons "about the fish and the faith" - the Sheikh and the Fisherman, you see, have been reeling to believe (wtf ?!) that the fish (in an unfamiliar / unusual environment) would have obeyed instinct and swim against the current. Unnecessary judgment would have been "clearer" to viewers if this philosophical deviation was lacking, but still the detail was a matter of directorial vision and scenario. Which reminds me that the development of heartbeat was too predictable for my taste ... But we did not forget to make the point that " Salmon Fishing in the Yemen" could be a fairy tale - then things are pleasant and acceptable.

I would not miss to pay special attention to the actors - everyone enjoys very good performances! I do not know why Ewan McGregor seemed to "replicate" his character Catcher Blok from "Below the love!" To some extent, but I can look too - obviously, Mr. Halstrom gives a more frivolous view of history. Sheikh is improbably altruistic, in that fairy-tale style. Emily Blount's chick is "ok," but it would not do much to get more passion in her performance. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen" is written by Simon Beufoy and with the knowledge of his creative potential I feel a little disappointment from the story of the story and the plot of history. But actually the film was a nice and fresh breath of oxygen (rich in oxygen), which we decided to expect when we heard about the project. British cinema with real class directed by Halstrom - I highly recommend!

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