As I Open My Eyes (À peine j’ouvre les yeux) Kino Lorber Reviewed by: Harvey Karten, Shockya Grade: B Director: Leyla Bouzid Written by: Leyla Bouzid, Marie-Sophie Chambon Cast: Baya Medhaffer, Ghalia Benali, Montassar Ayari, Aymen Omrani, Lassaad Jamoussi Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 8/30/16 Opens: September 9, 2016 Rock stars make more money than doctors. People pay happily to see rock stars because they’re exciting, but they pay doctors, generally less entertaining, regretfully. And people collect autographs from rock stars, but not from doctors, whose signatures are unreadable anyway. So what does a protective mother want her rock-inclined daughter to be? A doctor, of course. “As I Open My [ Read More ]
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- 9/5/2016
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
"Aren't we censoring ourselves? So what's the point of our music?" Kino Lorber has released a trailer for the upcoming Us release of the Tunisian film As I Open My Eyes, about a young girl torn between two lives: her connection to her family and her devotion to her rock band. Newcomer Baya Medhaffer plays the 18-year-old Tunisian woman named Farah, a singer in a politically charged rock band balancing her life as a musician and traditional expectations of her family. Described as a "nuanced portrait of the individual implications of the incipient Arab Spring". This looks like a fascinating and impressive film from Tunisia, worth checking out for many different reasons, including the debut performance of Baya Medhaffer. Enjoy. Here's the official Us trailer (+ poster) for Leyla Bouzid's As I Open My Eyes, direct from YouTube: Tunis, summer 2010, a few months before the Revolution: Farah, 18 years-old, has just...
- 8/22/2016
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The first U.S. trailer has arrived for the directorial debut of Leyla Bouzid, who has done a collection of short films before helming As I Open My Eyes, which is set for domestic release after a festival, which granted Bouzid Label Europe Cinema at the Venice Film Festival.
Co-written by Bouzid along with Marie-Sophie Chambon (in her first feature screenplay), the drama — alternatively titled À piene j’ouvre les yeux — follows Farah, an 18-year-old split between the ideologies of her Tunisian family and the freeing, creative life she leads as a singer in a rock band fueled by political outcrying.
Farah is played by first-timer Baya Medhaffer, who will surely make a name for herself after this portrayal. With a constantly moving frame, Bouzid looks to capture the balancing act of Farah’s life, and the instability of her environment, with intimate, kinetic force. See the trailer along with a poster below.
Co-written by Bouzid along with Marie-Sophie Chambon (in her first feature screenplay), the drama — alternatively titled À piene j’ouvre les yeux — follows Farah, an 18-year-old split between the ideologies of her Tunisian family and the freeing, creative life she leads as a singer in a rock band fueled by political outcrying.
Farah is played by first-timer Baya Medhaffer, who will surely make a name for herself after this portrayal. With a constantly moving frame, Bouzid looks to capture the balancing act of Farah’s life, and the instability of her environment, with intimate, kinetic force. See the trailer along with a poster below.
- 8/19/2016
- by Mike Mazzanti
- The Film Stage
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