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The Wedding Song(Le Chant des Mariées)

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France, Tunisia · 2008
1h 40m
Director Karin Albou
Starring Olympe Borval, Lizzie Brocheré, Karin Albou, Najib Oudghiri
Genre Drama

The Nazi occupation of Tunisia strains the bonds of friendship between Muslim Nour and Jewish Myriam as anti-Semitism seeps into their lives. As both women prepare for engagement, Myriam's family pressures her to marry a wealthy doctor in order to fix their financial problems while Nour's wedding is dependent on her fiancé getting a job, possibly as a functionary in the Nazi propaganda machine.

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Village Voice by

Though lovely to look at, The Wedding Song is a little overwhelmed by its relentlessly hyper-poetic imagery.

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The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis

A seductively fluid and tactile drama from the writer and director Karin Albou, explores love and identity through the prism of the female body and the rights of its owner.

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Wall Street Journal by Joe Morgenstern

The movie's distinction, however, lies in two lovely performances, and in the passion and pain of parallel lives--both girls suffering at the hands of men, both struggling to understand the brutality of the world they must share.

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The A.V. Club by Nathan Rabin

It takes more than just the ominous tread of Nazi boots to infuse gravitas into this well-intentioned but dreary look at the female mind and body during wartime.

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Time Out by Stephen Garrett

Albou’s film conjures an irresistibly evocative atmosphere of stifling limitations, as well as a frank view of the female body that vacillates between carnal, sacrificial and beatific. Its caustic beauty is hard to shake.

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