Lovely Kate Winslet plays Julia, a sad, irresponsible, English mom, broke in Marrakech with her two unnaturally precocious daughters. (Think Eloise in a hashish hotel with an absent hippie mama.) Indulging in her own spiritual and sensual adventures, Julia misreads her children's self-reliance and trouble inevitably follows. Relish the exquisite North African scenery backed with a soundtrack that mixes spicy Moroccan folk music with nostalgic late-Sixties road rock.

Havi Hoffman