Le Chant des Mariées (The Wedding Song) (2008)
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94% of critics liked it
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70% of users liked it
(280 ratings)
Two young women find that their differences bring them closer during a difficult time in this drama from writer and director Karin Albou. Nour (Olympe Borval) and Myriam (Lizzie Brocheré) grew up in the same neighborhood in Tunis, and as they've grown into adulthood they've stayed close… More Two young women find that their differences bring them closer during a difficult time in this drama from writer and director Karin Albou. Nour (Olympe Borval) and Myriam (Lizzie Brocheré) grew up in the same neighborhood in Tunis, and as they've grown into adulthood they've stayed close friends, even though Nour is a Muslim and Myriam is Jewish. It's 1942, and Tunis is under occupation by Axis forces, which has made life difficult for both women; the German authorities have prevented Khaled (Najib Oudghiri), Nour's fiancé, from getting a job, forcing them to postpone their wedding, while Myriam's family must pay exorbitant fines for being Jewish, which may lead her into a marriage of convenience to a wealthy physician (Simon Abkarian) many years her senior. While Myriam sees no way out of her desperate situation, Nour finds that the Nazi propaganda circulated throughout the community is piquing her worst suspicions about Jewish stereotypes. But as Nour and Myriam sink deeper into their personal crises, they begin to understand how badly they need one another's support. Le Chant des Mariées (aka The Wedding Song) was an official selection at the 2008 Palm Springs International Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Directed By
- Karin Albou
- Written By
- Karin Albou
- Genres
- Art House & International, Drama
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Nov 24, 2008 Wide
- Studio
- Pyramide Distribution
Critic Reviews
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Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
The movie's distinction .. 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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Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
With intimacy and sensuality, Albou explores what it means to be a woman and the bonds that women form with each other in an increasingly precarious situation.
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Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
Writer-director Karin Albou (who plays the mother of the Jewish bride) has a sensuous, intimate filmmaking style that overrides The Wedding Song's more precariously loaded plot parallels.
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Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
This seductively fluid and tactile drama explores love and identity through the prism of the female body and the rights of its owner.
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V.A. Musetto, New York Post
An intelligently written and directed story of two 16-year-old girls -- one Jewish and one Muslim -- and their friendship in Tunis during the Nazi occupation in the 1940s.
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Cast
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Lizzie Brocheré
as Myriam
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Olympe Borval
as Nour
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Simon Abkarian
as Raoul
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Najib Oudghiri
as Khaled
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Karin Albou
as Tita
