Mike Mosallam’s BREAKING FAST at BENTONVILLE Film Festival REVIEW; described as My Big Slim Middle-Eastern Gay Non-Wedding – and that’s just fine
Where Breaking Fast goes deeper is in the roots of the character conflict being so culturally specific. Mo assumes his own liberal take on Islam is the only right one, and homophobia in the religion merely an aspect of colonialism. Kal has his own family issues that make trusting hard. When they and their comic-relief best friends fight, they’re pulling at resilient weeds that have bedeviled far more patient cultivators.