A Girl in the World: Arbid’s Coming of Age Portrait Enhanced by Generous Lead
French director Danielle Arbid returns with Parisienne, her first feature since 2007’s critically dismissed A Lost Man. Returning to the Lebanese roots that informed her 2004 debut In the Battlefields, it’s a semi-autobiographical period piece exploring the a familiar trajectory of a woman discovering her identity while lost in a hostile, foreign environment. Besides featuring an impressive array of young, notable French actors in the supporting cast, Arbid discovers an arresting new presence with her lead Manal Issa, an actress making her screen debut. Warmly portrayed without depending on extreme emotional fluctuations to hold attention, it’s an overly familiar if engaging character study of a young woman forced to deal with unfair cruelties from patriarchal and political realms. Of course, it doesn’t hurt that the woman in question is as strikingly beautiful as Issa,...
French director Danielle Arbid returns with Parisienne, her first feature since 2007’s critically dismissed A Lost Man. Returning to the Lebanese roots that informed her 2004 debut In the Battlefields, it’s a semi-autobiographical period piece exploring the a familiar trajectory of a woman discovering her identity while lost in a hostile, foreign environment. Besides featuring an impressive array of young, notable French actors in the supporting cast, Arbid discovers an arresting new presence with her lead Manal Issa, an actress making her screen debut. Warmly portrayed without depending on extreme emotional fluctuations to hold attention, it’s an overly familiar if engaging character study of a young woman forced to deal with unfair cruelties from patriarchal and political realms. Of course, it doesn’t hurt that the woman in question is as strikingly beautiful as Issa,...
- 9/23/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
In our latest world cinema column, Nick continues his whistle stop tour of countries and their most notable films, this week taking in the Middle East…
Greetings, everyone! So, this week I'm returning to my Around the World in 80 films. I've visited Europe and Africa so far, so still have some way to go.
Choosing a film for each country is a difficult task, and one which is open for criticism. Do you go broad and choose a film which you believe represents the country as a whole? Or do you narrow the focus and choose a film which only represents a tiny minority? Both are open to accusations of subjectivity as opposed to objectivity, but, unfortunately, film criticism is probably the least objective medium in the world, especially when it's on the web.
All I can do is pick films which I think will a) interest people, and b...
Greetings, everyone! So, this week I'm returning to my Around the World in 80 films. I've visited Europe and Africa so far, so still have some way to go.
Choosing a film for each country is a difficult task, and one which is open for criticism. Do you go broad and choose a film which you believe represents the country as a whole? Or do you narrow the focus and choose a film which only represents a tiny minority? Both are open to accusations of subjectivity as opposed to objectivity, but, unfortunately, film criticism is probably the least objective medium in the world, especially when it's on the web.
All I can do is pick films which I think will a) interest people, and b...
- 11/3/2010
- Den of Geek
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