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WEDDING SONG | Le Chant des Mariées
Sunday, March 14, 8:45 PM at SIFF CINEMA AT MCCAW HALL
Director(s): Karin Albou
Country: Tunisia
Year: 2008
Length: 97 MINUTES
Format: 35mm | Feature | Other Countries: France
Language: French and Arabic w/subtitles
About the Film
Set in 1942 Tunis against the backdrop of Allied bombs and Nazis, THE WEDDING SONG observes the friendship of two teenage girlfriends, one Muslim and the other Jewish. Myriam (Lizzie Brochere) and Nour (Olympe Borval) have been inseparable since childhood sharing all of their confidences and dreams. As German occupation upends the harmonious relationship between Jews and Arabs and the girls face the prospect of being forced into arranged marriages, they have secrets from each other for the first time. In this fearless and poetic exploration of female sexual awakening and Jewish-Arab coexistence, seemingly powerless women find a way to reclaim their destinies. THE WEDDING SONG follows on the success of Tunisian-French writer-director Karin Albou's La Petite Jerusalem (2006), which won Best Screenplay in the Cannes Critics' Week. Warning: nudity.
PRINT SOURCE: Strand Releasing
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