FILM REVIEW: Maryam Touzani's 'Calle Malaga'

Review: A widow gets resourceful when the ground shifts beneath her in the feisty 'Calle Málaga'

Spanish acting legend and Pedro Almodóvar veteran Carmen Maura commands a well-proportioned indie about the moves one makes to hold onto a sense of self.

FILM REVIEW: Maryam Touzani's 'Calle Malaga'

Maryam Touzani’s “Calle Malaga,” playing at New York City’s Film Forum, is set in Tangier, a Moroccan city located on the northwestern coasts of the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. It is a polyglot city inhabited by many different nationalities, including a large Spanish population that left Spain during Franco’s regime. The film’s central figure, Marie Angeles (Carmen Maura, whom I remember from her arresting performances in Pedro Alm…