The Great Fava Beans of China

The Great Fava Beans of China

Directed by Sherif Arafa

Produced by Oscar Pictures

2004105 min6.5 / 10

A lighthearted comedy about a cowardly young man thrust into absurd international circumstances, balancing family dysfunction with fish-out-of-water hijinks.

Mohy Al-Sharqawi is a young man whose grandfather and his uncles form a smuggling gang. As Mohy is a coward who cannot go along with them, he goes to live with his mother and step-father but they send him to China to represent Egypt in a cooking competition which gets him into a lot of troubles

Questions people ask

  • Is The Great Fava Beans of China easy watching? Yes. More comforting than 77% of films.

  • Is The Great Fava Beans of China scary? Barely. Less frightening than 76% of films.

  • Is The Great Fava Beans of China sad? Not especially. Less sad than 73% of films.

  • Does The Great Fava Beans of China end with hope? Somewhat. More hopeful than 70% of films.

  • Is The Great Fava Beans of China violent? Not especially. Less violent than 64% of films.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

46/ 100

Cinnamon Score

How much this film gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.

Familiar shape, done well.

Rarity26

How unlike any other film this one feels

Surprise71

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love45

How much audiences actually like it

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Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

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