Leeneia, you're welcome. The movie [is] good, mainly because of the songs. The acting and dialogue is a bit old-style Victorian melodrama, and it's a bit racist in its depiction of its Moroccan characters (as if [i]all Moroccan/Arab men want to have multiple wives[/i] And Azuri, in particular, is evil because she's "native."
And the Red Shadow/Pierre-- well personally, here what I think about the Shadow: "why did he have to be a Frenchman?" I get that's so that Margot can recognise Pierre's other side, but the way it plays out is sort of like "The locals are helpless without a white man."