#Leyla Bouzid

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Une histoire d'amour et de désir (2021)

dir. Leyla Bouzid

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Review: ‘A Tale of Love and Desire’ a rich, if jumbled, look at a young Algerian in Paris

BY CARLOS AGUILAR MARCH 10, 2022 7 AM PT

Erotic verses from ancient Arab poetry enrapture a painfully inhibited young man in the sensual coming-of-age drama “A Tale of Love and Desire” from Tunisian director Leyla Bouzid. Insecurity plagues Ahmed (Sami Outalbali), the 18-year-old son of Algerian refugees studying literature at the famed Sorbonne in Paris. There, he falls for Farah (Zbeida Belhajamor), an open-minded girl from Tunis who challenges his sexist hypocrisy.

In touch with her own carnal desires, Farah repeatedly tries to free Ahmed from the emotional blockage imposed by patriarchal norms. Bouzid makes the case that before religious restrictions maligned hedonism, Arab art and philosophy advocated for physical pleasure.

But despite having connected with words that exalt romantic lust, Ahmed still sees sex as an impure act that taints love and not as a manifestation of it. In the disenfranchisement he feels from his heritage, there’s something lost about himself that‘s replaced with an opaqueness of spirit and a defeated demeanor.

Ahmed’s personal struggles mimic the oppression in Algeria and throughout the Arab world. While scenes at home broaden this context, showing his uprooted father’s influence on him, the intermingling of all these ideas lacks strong cohesion. There are lyrical touches in the form of dance and magical realist inserts that act as a visual escape valve for the pressure that builds from the protagonist’s overwhelming uneasiness.

Throughout, we share in Farah’s frustration, as Ahmed’s behavior suffocates the film, exponentially raising the necessity for a narrative catharsis. And in that regard, the director’s intent is effective, given that she waits until the very end to provide this release. Outalbali’s apprehensively quiet portrayal of this repressed individual, out of touch with his Algerian identity, feels deliberately one-noted until a liberating turning point.

Intellectually rich even if jumbled, “Tale” plays like a spiritual continuation of Bouzid’s 2015 debut, “As I Open My Eyes,” in the prominence of Arab music, its political undertones related to the Arab Spring, and because it also focuses on a defiant young woman named Farah with vaguely similar characteristics. Both pieces convey a yearning for an individual and collective freedom that begins with control over one’s own body as a means of expression.

‘A Tale of Love and Desire ’ In French and Arabic with English subtitles Not Rated Running time: 1 hour, 42 minutes

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Favourite ship ever: Hualian (but god knows I can't pick between them moshang and ranwan 😩) Last song: Failure Story by Kim Jae Hyung Last movie: Une Historie d'Amour et de Désir (2020) by Leyla Bouzid (stunning movie, after watching it I bought it. It is about a beautiful exploration of desire from the perspective of a repressed (by culture and religion) young man, he navigates his feelings as he learns about his culture and himself.) Currently reading: On earth we're briefly gorgeous by Ocean Vuong (enjoying it so so much, probably one of the best books I'm going to read this year.) Currently watching: Nothing. Currently consuming: fresh mango and an orange. Currently craving: iced tea.

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Movies 2023

JANUARY / ENERO 6: L'Extraordinaire Voyage de Marona - Anca Damian (9/10) 6: Le Voyage du prince - Jean-François Laguionie & Xavier Picard (7/10) 10: Une histoire d'amour et de désir - Leyla Bouzid (9/10) 11: Les amours d'Anaïs - Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet (10/10) 11: Un cuento de circo & a Love Song - Demián Bichir (2/10) 12: Finlandia - Horacio Alcalá (10/10) 14: Ruido - Natalia Beristáin (10/10) 16: La La Land - Damien Chazelle (9/10) 18: Decision to Leave - Park Chan-wook (6/10) 19: Whiplash - Damien Chazelle (10/10) 22: Nos hicieron noche - Antonio Hernández (8/10) 22: Amor rebelde - Alejandro Bernal (8/10) 23: Malvada - J.M. Craviotto (5/10) 30: La panthère des neiges - Marie Amiguet & Vincent Munier (10/10) 30: Babylon - Damien Chazelle (7/10) TOTAL: 15

FEBRUARY / FEBRERO 7: Aftersun - Charlotte Wells (10/10) 8: Knock at the Cabin - M. Night Shyamalan (7/10) 8: Alcarràs - Carla Simón (10/10) 8: Corsage - Marie Kreutzer (7/10) 11: El suplente - Diego Lerman (8/10) 11: Les Magnétiques - Vincent Maël Cardona (8/10) 13: Armageddon Time - James Gray (9/10) 15: The Whale - Darren Aronosfky (10/10) 15: Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey - Rhys Frake-Waterfield (6/10) 20: Rimini - Ulrich Seidl (8/10) 23: The Banshees of Inisherin - Martin McDonagh (10/10) 27: Missing - Nicholas D. Johnson & Will Merrick (10/10) 28: The Fabelmans - Steven Spielberg (9/10) 28: Till - Chinonye Chukwu (8/10) 28: Pearl - Ti West (9/10) TOTAL: 15

MARCH / MARZO 1: Huesera - Michelle Garza Cervera (8/10) 1: Women Talking - Sarah Polley (10/10) 4: Manto de gemas - Natalia López (7/10) 4: Close - Lukas Dhont (10/10) 11: Perfume de violetas - Maryse Sistach (10/10) 13: Puss in Boots: The Last Wish - Joel Crawford (10/10) 15: Living - Oliver Hermanus (10/10) 16: Tár - Todd Field (10/10) 16: 1976 - Manuela Martelli (9/10) 20: À plein temps - Eric Gravel (10/10) 20: Tár - Todd Field (10/10) 22: Everything Everywhere All at Once - Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert (10/10) 22: Women Talking - Sarah Polley (10/10) 25: The Piano - Jane Campion (10/10) 29: ¡Que viva México! - Luis Estrada (4/10) TOTAL: 15

APRIL / ABRIL 3: Dos estaciones - Juan Pablo González (9/10) 3: Last Film Show - Pan Nalin (9/10) 7: Klondike - Maryna Er Gorbach (8/10) 7: Estación catorce - Diana Cardozo (9/10) 8: Sobre las nubes - María Aparicio (9/10) 8: Concerned Citizen - Idan Haguel (10/10) 9: Laila in Haifa - Amos Gitai (6/10) 11: EO - Jerzy Skolimowski (8/10) 11: Asia - Ruthy Pribar (9/10) 12: Last Film Show - Pan Nalin (10/10) 12: Holy Spider - Ali Abbasi (10/10) 13: Triangle of Sadness - Ruben Östlund (10/10) 13: Dalva - Emmanuelle Nicot (10/10) 14: Godland - Hlynur Pálmason (9/10) 15: Vicenta B. - Carlos Lechuga (10/10) 15: Sick of Myself - Kristoffer Borgli (10/10) 15: La double vie de Véronique - Krzysztof Kieślowski (8/10) 20: Sparta - Ulrich Seidl (10/10) 23: Feature Film About Life - Dovilė Šarutytė (10/10) 26: Infinity Pool - Brandon Cronenberg (5/10) 26: Dead Bride - Francesco Picone (3/10) TOTAL: 21

MAY / MAYO 1: Evil Dead Rise - Lee Cronin (6/10) 3: La Usurpadora: The Musical - Santiago Limón (5/10) 4: Jirón - Christian Cueva (10/10) 4: Trigal - Anabel Caso (8/10) 9: Les cinq diables - Léa Mysius (10/10) 13: Huesera - Michelle Garza Cervera (9/10) 16: Brujería - Christopher Murray (8/10) 16: Firebird - Peeter Rebane (10/10) 17: Beau Is Afraid - Ari Aster (4/10) 17: Eami - Paz Encina (7/10) 17: The Innocents - Eskil Vogt (10/10)

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A Tale of Love and Desire (Une histoire d'amour et de désir), Leyla Bouzid (2021)

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As I Open My Eyes dir.  Leyla Bouzid (2015)

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UNA STORIA D'AMORE E DI DESIDERIO di Leyla Bouzid Dal 25 marzo al cinema

UNA STORIA D’AMORE E DI DESIDERIO di Leyla Bouzid Dal 25 marzo al cinema

Ahmed, 18 anni, francese di origine algerina, è cresciuto in una banlieue di Parigi. Nelle aule dell’università incontra Farah, giovane tunisina vitale e appassionata, che si è appena trasferita in Francia. Mentre scopre insieme a lei un corpus di letteratura araba erotica di cui non immaginava l’esistenza, Ahmed si innamora di Farah e, benché sconvolto da questo desiderio, cerca in tutti i modi…

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À peine j'ouvre les yeux (As I Open My Eyes), 2015 (dir. Leyla Bouzid)

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Day 54 of my #90minDirectedbyWomen yearlong film viewing practice... 

Leyla Bouzid’s As I Open My Eyes |  À peine j'ouvre les yeux 

Have you explored Leyla Bouzid’s work?

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"I hope there will be an Arab wave of cinema. There's a lot happening in our countries, and it's important to show a different image than what you see on the television or in the news.”

We're still spotlighting Tribeca selections helmed by women directors every day of Women’s History Month. Throughout the month of March, you've seen films by acclaimed talents like Bette Gordon, Nicole Holofcener, Mira Nair, Sarah Polley, and Kelly Reichardt.

Leyla Bouzid is a filmmaker who absolutely deserves to join their ranks. In her 2016 festival selection As I Open My Eyes, Bouzid follows a Tunisian teen who shirks her studies and disobeys her mother to take the mic as rock goddess in a local band. This is a tuneful and incisive gem about a young artist at the cusp of a personal and political revolution that should be sought out and relished by all.

Tunisian Filmmaker Leyla Bouzid Talks Her Musically Charged Drama As I Open My Eyes

(Source: tribecafilm.com)

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À peine j'ouvre les yeux (As I Open My Eyes). Leyla Bouzid. 2015. Tunisia/France/Belgium/United Arab Emirates.

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#74: As I Open My Eyes/A peine j’ouvre les yeux (2015, dir. by Leyla Bouzid)

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As I Open My Eyes dir. Leyla Bouzid (2015)

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Wherein I talk about Leyla Bouzid's À peine j'ouvre les yeux (As I Open My Eyes)