Mining sensuality from the depiction of involved handcraft, writer-director Maryam Touzani makes elegant human dramas embedded within traditional trades. Her latest delicacy, “The Blue Caftan,” Morocco’s shortlisted Oscar entry, traces the romantic entanglement that Halim, a master embroiderer with a bashful personality but alluring blue eyes, and his dominant, yet sickly wife Mina enter of mutually unspoken accord. Since Mina’s …
