I watched this movie for a French Film course. This movie is absolutely great, and I love how it deals with the tenants of Sufism. Also, I like how the movie embodies the German concept of bildungsroman, which essentially means a coming of age story. Monsieur Ibrahim is also very culturally innovative because it demonstrates that people can overcome rigid boundaries and differences between cultures.

just love the fact that Omar Sharif was still that Good :)

Great film touching story,beautiful scenery and awesome cast. A solid film.

Well, I definitely liked the first half better than the second half. I really liked the film when it first started but as it went on it had me rolling my eyes at the sentimentality of it all and how it was trying to pull the viewers heartstrings. Also it was very predictable.

davvero bello. francesi vi odio quando fate cose belle

"Dictionaries always use words you don't understand."

Great movie , Omar Sharif was brilliant .

Young Jewish boy with an addiction to prostitutes, Muslim store owner friend, and a depressed dad who takes laxitives makes a great film, until the boy and the store owner head off to Turkey or Hungary.

A moving film which touches on how love can surpass ethnicity and religion. Sometimes we're so preoccupied by our burdens that we've forgotten how to be happy: to BE happy. I've yet to know more about sufism in Islam, but the universality it suggests has impressed me. The original novel by Ãric-Emmanuel Schmitt should be worth-reading as well. I've read a little part of it (in French... quite demanding for me), but I'm guessing this film follows the original novel quite closely.

What an art! Is this France in the early days??

Moses (Peter Boulanger) is a teenage boy that finds himself into women, and needs money to pay for them. For his first time, he got money from his piggy bank. Then, he started stealing products from a grocery store next to his house in order to have food and wine for dinner as well as saving his father's money for his next adventure with one of the neighborhood prostitutes. What he could not imagine is that the owner of the grocery store, Ibrahim (Omar Sharif), knew exactly what he was doing, and a very strong friendship started between them. Worth watching!

This is a very affecting, sweet, well made and very well acted coming of age story about a boy growing up in a dirty area of Paris who befriends a grocery store clerk.

"Ce que tu donnes Momo, est à toi pour toujours, ce que tu gardes est perdu à jamais" Beautiful

Witty, melancholic, funny, full of love and life.

SUPER --- "Ce que tu donnes, Momo, c'est à toi pour toujours; ce que tu gardes, c'est perdu à jamais !"

Una sorpresa increíble

Very enjoyable film, but though it styles itself something more, I don't think it really was. This disappointment may be leading me to stiff it by half a star or so... I certainly recommend watching it in any case.

Starts out quite a cute, positive placebo for the coming of age kids. The last 1/3 is going off-track & way too far-fetched however.

A good preformance by Lawrence of Arabia star Omar Sharif as the shop owner Ibrahim whp's unlike our main character Momo follow his OWN coran.

the chemistry between sharif and boulanger was very convincing. sharif had some pretty humorous lines in there... it left me wondering if any father would have done as much for his teenage son in real life. good movie :)