The Wedding Song Arabic/ French War Movie 2009
Le chant des mariées
Cast And Crew
Staring Simon Abkarian, Lizzie Brochere
Director: Karin Albou
Screenwriter: Karin Albou
Genre: Drama, War
Release Date: October 23, 2009
Country: France | Tunisia
Language: Arabic | French
"The Wedding Song" - Synopsis
During the Third Reich's occupation of Tunis in 1942, Nour and Myriam, two Muslim and Jewish adolescent girls, live in the same quarters of the old city and have been close friends since childhood. In spite of their intimacy and shared aspirations, each girl seems to secretly desire the other's life: while Nour regrets that she doesn't go to school, Myriam dreams of passion and envies Nour¿s recent engagement to her handsome cousin Khaled. With rising political upheaval, the friends are gradually drawn apart as they pick sides in a battle they had never considered before, but the more they grow apart, the more they need each other.Watch online Movie Trailer free The Wedding Song Hollywood film.
The film Directed by Karin Albou
Reviews
I saw this last month at the 2009 Palm Springs International film Festival. This is the second feature film of writer/director/actress Karin Albou who received critical acclaim for her debut film La Petite Jersalem. As as writer and director Albou seems to have a promising career ahead of her as she knows how to put a film together and get the best out of her cast including herself as an actress as she plays the role of Myriam's stern but loving, smart and hard working mother Tita.
The Story
The film is set in 1942 in German occupied Tunisia as the German's are vying for the support of the Muslim population to be their allies in the promise of independence for Tunisia. 16 year old Nour (Olympe Borval) is a Muslim engaged to her cousin Khaled (Najib Oudghiri). Nour's best friend since their earliest childhood is Myriam (Lizzie Brouchere). Myriam is Jewish and the German occupation has brought understandably hard times and tension for the Jewish Tunisian population. Myriam longs for the love that her friend Nour sees in Khaled but Myriam is betrothed to a wealthy and much older Doctor Raoul (Simon Abkarian) who is being forced to work in sympathy to the Nazi occupation. Photographed by cinematographer Laurent Brunet this is a good film but despite the war setting there is not a lot of war action and the film centers around the relationship of Myriam and Nour and this could be categorized as a chick flick. I liked it though and would give it a 7.5 out of 10 and recommend it.
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