Thursday 30 July 2020

UN DIVAN A TUNIS (ARAB BLUES)

Watchable. I can see where they attempted comedy. 'Attempted' is the key word. I might be a biased feminist but what struck me from early minutes was sexism in the depicted Tunisian society and at some point even sorrow. Tunisia is portrayed as a country at crossroads between tradition and modernity, very much like Poland now but with the added economic and legal chaos smacking of Poland of the 1990s. Little in terms of a plot either. The whole thing is shallow and simplistic. Wasted potential.

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