Jocelyne Saab’s “Dunia”
Bravery? like how?
Here’s the plot from IMDB.com:
After studying literature at Cairo University, Dunia, 23 years old, wants to become a professional dancer. She attends audition for an oriental dance contest where she recites Arabian poetry without any body movement. She explain to the perplexed jury that a woman can’t move her body or evoke act of love when society ask women to hide their femininity. She is selected and meet Beshir, an intellectual and activist who will supervise her thesis on ecstasy in Sufi love poetry. Their attraction is mutual. This could be liberation for Dunia but the constraints on women in Egyptian society goes deeper than she suspects.
Well, I gotta admit It doesn’t seem like your average arabic film but that highlighted part in that clip is still puzzling me.
I can’t wait to see this film … and hey since when do we get arabic films screened at Montréal Film Festival?
December 8th, 2005 19:42
There are many Arab films that come to Canada and yes to Montreal. The problem lies with the Arab/Muslim community who seem to like complaining about their circumstance then going out and actually supporting something. I too look forward to seeing this film but I am sick of the backward Arabs who immediately judge a film without seeing it, condemn a film and form opinions without actually seeing it. Our other biggest problem is we do not tolerate diversity at all.