Tribeca Breakdown: "Ali Blue Eyes"  Movie Description(Click Here
To Hide) Claudio Giovannesi’s award-winning second dramatic
feature captures one week in the life of sixteen-year-old
troublemaker Nader (Nader Sarhan), who, despite his family’s
insistence that he respect his Muslim roots, fights, steals and
pursues an Italian girlfriend. A stunning example of
contemporary Italian neo-realism, Alì Blue Eyes is an engrossing
coming-of-age story about an immigrant who will stop at nothing
to fit in.  In a quest to see as many movies as possible at this
years festival, I was bound to find a few that just made me want
to close my eyes and go back to sleep. “Ali Blue Eyes” is that
movie, one that had more going on in my seat (squirming,
yawning, watch-checking) than on the screen.  Italian director
Claudio Giovanessi’s film is about Nader (Nader Sarhan), an
Egyptian boy living with his family in Italy. He is 16, prime
age to want to be in love and have sex with his cute Italian
girlfriend Brigitte (Brigitte Apruzzes