Desc: The String: Directed by Mehdi Ben Attia. With Claudia Cardinale, Antonin Stahly Viswanadhan, Salim Kechiouche, Driss Ramdi. Malik has a lot on his plate when he returns home to Tunisia after living in France. He's processing his father's death, he can't come out to his mother, and his childhood anxieties have resurfaced. But all of Malik's problems seem to fade away when he falls for Bilal, the dreamy houseboy at his mother's bourgeois estate.