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Genre | Drama |
Format | Multiple Formats, NTSC, Subtitled, Color |
Contributor | France Darry, Jalil Lespert, Marie-France Pisier, Mathilde Seigner, Zinedine Soualem, Fejria Deliba, Yamina Benguigui, Rabia Mokedem See more |
Language | Arabic, French |
Runtime | 1 hour and 38 minutes |
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Zouina leaves her homeland with her three children to join her husband in France, where he's been living for the past ten years. In a land and culture foreign to her, Zouina struggles against her mother-in-law's tyrannical hand and her husband's distrustful bitterness in an attempt to adjust to her life in exile. Born in France to Algerian parents, director Yamina Banguigui drew upon her own childhood recollections to paint richly textured portraits of the immigrant experience, She is renowned for her insightful cinematic treatises on the North African community in France, including the documentaries Women of Islam (1994), Immigrant Memories; the North African Inheritance (1997) and the Perfumed Garden (2000).
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Winner - FIPRESCI Award (Best Film) - Toronto Int'l Film Festival
Winner - Audience Award - Bordeaux Int'l Festival of Women in Cinema
Winner - Best Actress - Bordeaux Int'l Festival of Women in Cinema
Winner - Best Actress - Bordeaux Int'l Festival of Women in Cinema
Winner - Golden Star - Marrakech Int'l Film Festival
Nominated - Golden Pyramid - Cairo Int'l Film Festival
Winner - OCIC Award - Amiens Int'l Film Festival
Official Selection - Reel Dame Film Festival
Official Selection - Crossroads Int'l Film Festival ---
A topnotch central perf by the attractive and convincing Fejria Deliba combines with well-observed details that bring the tricky assimilation of a generation of immigrants to life. --Variety
[A] vibrant feature debut! --Village Voice
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- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : Unrated (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.72 ounces
- Item model number : 2577865
- Director : Yamina Benguigui
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, NTSC, Subtitled, Color
- Run time : 1 hour and 38 minutes
- Release date : January 1, 2005
- Actors : Marie-France Pisier, Fejria Deliba, Mathilde Seigner, Zinedine Soualem, Jalil Lespert
- Subtitles: : English
- Studio : Film Movement
- ASIN : B0007A61K6
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #75,289 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #653 in Foreign Films (Movies & TV)
- #5,913 in Kids & Family DVDs
- #12,004 in Drama DVDs
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- Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2017I love this film for exposing my French students to Algerian immigration in France. My high school level 1 saw this around movie around spring break time when I was out for a surgery and they were riveted. They couldn't stop talking about the ending! This film lead to great discussions and was a good hook for talking about the burkini ban, the ban on religious symbols in school, etc. Highly recommend!
- Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2015This was a good movie to show to my French AP class. There's only one scene where the lady takes her dress off, but has a slip underneath- so no nudity, no sex, which is not always possible in a French film. There IS some domestic violence which is hard to watch (though more intimated than graphic). Overall, it helps segue into modern-day France and immigration.
- Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2019I love this movie. I use it for my French AP course.
- Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2005There are not enough works available in the United States that deal with immigration to France and the life experiences of beurs (the French expression for North Africans in France). This was a helpful, though imperfect, intervention.
A mother arrives in France with her mean mother-in-law and three children to reunite with her husband. The film is filled with stock characters: the xenophobic neighbor, the diversity-loving neighbor, etc. You can tell that this has a limited budget because there are few characters and the space in which they film is very small. The script isn't that strong either.
I am glad they chose a woman as the main character. Unfortunately, her sadness seemed forced. She'd cry at the drop of a pin and no one would be there to comfort her. The husband seemed ineffective.
This movie mentions that families reunited with male workers in 1974. The film doesn't say whether it takes place then or not. At one point, the mother laments that there are no other Algerians around with whom to practice their culture. However, I imagine this situation is far from true in the France of 2005. Further, I hear that beurs live in crowded housing in the suburbs (which are bad, unlike in the US) as opposed to the nice house with its nice garden in this film.
I know the practice is not sexual, but the husband kisses another Algerian man approximately five times as they converse. Since both of the characters are hot, it was sexy to watch. The actor who played the father looks a lot like the light-skinned, African-American actor Roger Guenveur Smith.
This film is not as strong as "Roots" or "Mi Familia." Still, it was helpful to see another tale about people of color and their immigration to the West.
- Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2008This film seemed intriguing, because it was supposed to deal with the issues of immigration, integration and the plight of women, so I rented it. It was not a bad film, but I cannot say that I really enjoyed it. Characters were two-dimensional and not well-developed. The husband was a total brute, both physical and emotional. Zouina was obviously the victim and I felt sorry for her, but she was not a very likeable person. She seemed to be cold, distant and treated local residents with distrust. Nicole, for example, had to work very hard to maintain a relationship with her. Perhaps she was supposed to be that way because of her assigned role and misery. But when she met another Algerian woman, it seemed that the two instantly became as close as two people who have known each other for ages, at least until the other Algerian woman figured out why Zouina came by and kicked her out of the house. I found it very surprising that all these French people around her - like the missing colonel's wife, bus driver, Nicole and even the grocery store clerk - liked her so much, took such an interest in her and tried to help her, even before getting to know her and her situation. All French people seemed remarkably well-disposed and welcoming, except the neighbors, the elderly couple. They were not xenophobic but understandably suspicious of their new unfriendly and uncaring neighbors because so much of their lives was invested in the building's garden.
Some of the details in the plot did not make much sense to me. Maybe there is a cultural disconnect here and perhaps someone else could explain them. For example, why did Zouina, who was generally aloof with strangers and very obedient to her family, strip to her undergarments and fight the neighbor lady over the soccer ball? Why did she bring home the corpse of the dog, which belonged to the missing colonel's wife, and buried it in the back yard? Why did she throw out the damaged makeup and cosmetics on the street - is it to attract Nicole's attention (as it happened, Nicole was just walking by), or is it an Algerian custom to dispose of the garbage that way? Finally, however lonely and desperate she was, what could she have expected from another Algerian family?
I sympathize with the plight of women in Africa, Asia and the Middle East and I think that there should be more films like this one to raise people's awareness. I wish that the characters were a bit more appealing and understandable, however. Films like this should bring us, people of different backgrounds, closer together and help us to re-discover the things that we all have in common. I would like to be of help to someone like Zouina in principle but, as much as I hate to admit it, this film made me realize that I would not want to live next to that particular family, even without that monster of a mother-in-law - they just would not make good neighbors.
- Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 20131974: the family reunification act allows immigrants to bring their wives, children, and parents to France. The plot focuses on the first month of Zouina's arrival.
- Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2014Fast delivery, good quality and good price. It was everything I was looking for, the product met all my expectations.
- Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2013It's an interesting story and a well made movie. I am not sure how plausible the end was, but it's probably better to make a stand sometimes then go with the status quo.
I think Zouina knew this and acted according.
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DidiReviewed in France on May 19, 2009
5.0 out of 5 stars Très beau film
Le film est très bien et ne manque pas d'émotions. Et il y a aussi plein de bonus, ce qui est très intéressant.