#manele labidi

[dailyworldcinema]

Golshifteh Farahani as Selma Derwich ARAB BLUES / UN DIVAN À TUNIS (2019) dir. Manele Labidi

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rules: post 10 of your favorite comfort movies and then tag 10 people. tagged by @kallypsos thank you LOVE ♡ (by the way your theme looks incredible, I don't watch house of dragons (that's house of dragons right?) but it's so prettyyyy

100% Arabica (Mahmoud Zemmouri)

Mes frères et moi (Yohan Manca)

Razzia (Nabil Ayouch)

Adam (Maryam Touzani)

The Blue Caftan (Maryam Touzani)

The Motorcycle Diaries (Walter Salles)

Arab Blues (Manele Labidi Labbé)

Mille mois (Faouzi Bensaïdi)

Kirikou et la Sorcière (Michel Ocelot)

Compartment Number 6 (Juho Kuosmanen)

I tag @lewisitshammertime @swaggypsyduck @cryingforcrocodiles @zbee @roobylavender @saintdevote @mountinez @seedlessmuffins @mavieesttriste16 @0alanasworld0 if you guys want ♡

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Some Recent Films By MENA Women Filmmakers 

A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (2014) Dir. Ana Lily Amirpour

The Perfect Candidate (2019). Dir.  Haifaa al-Mansour

Papicha (2019). Dir. Mounia Meddour

Capernaum (2018). Dir. Nadine Labaki

The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018). Dir. Desiree Akhavan

I Still Hide To Smoke (2016). Dir. Rayhana Obermeyer

Arab Blues (2019). Dir.  Manele Labidi

Divines (2016). Dir. Houda Benyamina

The Man Who Sold His Skin (2020). Dir. Kaouther Ben Hania

In Between (2016). Dir. Maysaloun Hamoud

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Golshifteh Farahani in Un divan à Tunis (Arab Blues) (2019) dir. Manele Labidi

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Seen in 2021:

Arab Blues (Manele Labidi), 2019

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Un divan à Tunis (2019), Manele Labidi

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J’ai regardé Un Divan à Tunis de Manele Labidi hier soir, avec Golshifteh Farahani en rôle principal. C’était franchement cool, et je vous le recommande chaudement si vous ne l’avez pas vu.

Mais surtout, ce film montre que l’administration Tunisienne est toute aussi pétée que l’administration Française, ce qui implique que l’aspect “tout pété” des services administratifs est inhérent à la profession. Ce que je trouve rassurant, presque. :3

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Un divan à Tunis (2019) - Manele Labidi

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Un Divan à Tunis (2020) Dir. : Manele Labidi

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“Un Divan à Tunis”

Un film de Manele Labidi

[dailyworldcinema]

Arab Blues (2019) dir. Manele Labidi Labbé

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Arab Blues

Arab Blues    [trailer]

After years abroad in Paris, Selma returns to Tunis with the dream of opening up her own psychotherapy practice.

After the introduction of the general set-up and the characters, the movie fails a bit to get traction.

There are also some tonal issues since the movie at times can't seem to decide, if it wants to take the problems of the patients seriously or just use them comedic purposes. Which is unfortunate since I think this could easily be fixed with a sharper focus on fewer characters. But there's still Golshifteh Farahani in a leading role.

Amused by the Sigmund Freud portrait, her sister, and the changing background pics on the health ministry secretary's computer.

[thefilmstage]

The original French-language title of Arab Bles is Un divan à Tunis, and true to the echo of Chantal Akerman’s psychotherapeutic meet-cute A Couch in New York, Manele Labidi’s debut feature is the frothy tale of an analyst coming to terms with her own sense of dislocation, while tending to the many seriocomic needs of her flock. In this case, the psychoanalyst is Selma (Golshifteh Farahani), who leaves Paris and returns to her family’s apartment building in Tunisia, where a neighbor looks at her poster of Sigmund Freud and asks her: Who is he, your father?

A psychotherapy practice, with its circumscribed location, time, and rules of engagement, is a generative structuring device, and between culture-clash jokes about punctuality and price haggling, Labidi uses Selma’s practice to serve up bambalouni-sized portions of poignancy and human quirk. Almost in spite of themselves, her analysands overcome an ingrained aversion to the imported practice of talk therapy: a depressed imam; a glamorous salon owner who can never wax away her complicated relationship with her mother; a potentially transgender character whose road to self-discovery is played fondly, but as broad, exoticizing schtick, and which proves a hard subplot for Labidi to land.

Continue reading our TIFF review of Arab Blues.

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Arab Blues (Un divan à Tunis), Manele Labidi (2019)

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Arab Blues (2019)