Tale of Love and Desire
It's an edifying and introspective film, with something valuable to say about embracing our most carnal impulses without shame.
A Tale of Love and Desire
Ahmed, an 18-year-old Frenchman of Algerian origin, grew up in the suburbs of Paris. At the university, he meets Farah, a live wire young Tunisian woman who has just arrived in Paris. While discovering a corpus of sensual and erotic Arabic literature he never imagined existed, Ahmed falls deeply in love with Farah, and although literally overwhelmed with desire, he tries to resist it.
Genre
Romance,
French Cinema,
Women and Film
Web Site
Runtime
103
Language
French,
Arabic
Director
Leila Bouzid
Writer(s)
Leila Bouzid
Cast
Sami Outalbali,
Zbeida Belhajamor,
Diong-Kéba Tacu,
Aurélia Petit
Awards:
Nominee, Most Promising Actor, Cesar Awards
FEATURED REVIEW
Lee Marshall, Screen International
One of the most telling moments in Tunisian director-screenwriter Leyla Bouzid’s second feature, which closes Cannes’ 2021 Critics, Week, comes when Ahmed, a bright young French kid who has secured a place to study literature at elite university La Sorbonne, is asked by a girl he fancies – fellow ...
Played at
Laemmle Virtual Cinema 3.11.22 - 3.31.22
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