Not as grand as the superb silences of the palace but not bad at all. Aicha takes her autistic son & 2 daughters back to the island of djerba as her marriage is suffering. There the women of djerba make rugs & carpets most of the year & then their husbands come for one month to collect them & head back to their bazaar shops in tunisia the capital, hence the name, season of men. Moufida does repeat here the haunting past with secrets like she did in silences of the palace. I couldn't sympathies with hend sabri's Emna,her character was a bit off putting unlike her sister meriem, who ghalya ben ali played the part quite well, perhaps it was the role but the one who really did shine & is a promising talent is the young meriem, Azza baaziz, who was able to convey her emotions & suffering better than anyone else in the film in my opinion. Moufida tlatli seems to have found another young promising talent in her just like she did with Hend sabri in the silences of the palace ten years ago. This film will be enjoyed by those who liked silences even if not in the same level of grandeur, this one is about breaking tradition, confronting your past & finding yourself.
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This movie was a deception for me
Lady_Targaryen17 August 2005
Warning: Spoilers
I didn't like this movie very much.
One of the reasons was: I was thinking that it was an optimistic movie, and all the things go to a right way. And it's not exactly like that.
I don't know about Egyptian culture nowadays, but I guess the movie made a critic about the way that Egyptian women live- or lived. They did not have many rights: They had to work only at home,they couldn't go to the schools after they had their first period,they had the obligation of being virgin until they get married, and the list goes.
Aicha is always told,by her mother-in-law and her husband,to have a son. Spite of the fact that she likes her two girls, she gives birth to a boy. Ironic or not, the son becomes a kid full of problems like autism.
One of the reasons was: I was thinking that it was an optimistic movie, and all the things go to a right way. And it's not exactly like that.
I don't know about Egyptian culture nowadays, but I guess the movie made a critic about the way that Egyptian women live- or lived. They did not have many rights: They had to work only at home,they couldn't go to the schools after they had their first period,they had the obligation of being virgin until they get married, and the list goes.
Aicha is always told,by her mother-in-law and her husband,to have a son. Spite of the fact that she likes her two girls, she gives birth to a boy. Ironic or not, the son becomes a kid full of problems like autism.
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