"If Malik and Bilal's affaire de coeur swims safely without any internal or external snags, the chief drama in THE STRING is the mother-son reconciliation, and it doesn't take much for Sara to change her mind and munificently dole out her acceptance and benevolence. Although a hale Cardinale basks in Sara's unstrained gentility with ease and charm, THE STRING, as a whole, doesn't live up to her gracious standard, Attia is a clunky filmmaker, plot developments are wheeled out in a groove and subtlety is ever elusive. As a greenhorn, Viswanadhan's performance cannot frictionlessly switch from continental charisma to guilt-ridden turmoil, and Kechiouche's Bilal is too secondary to have any say besides being a supportive boyfriend."
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