After watching the fascinating Fulci Talks (2021-also reviewed) I decided to check what else was screening/streaming at the WOW Film Festival. Finding the trailer on the site to be enticing, I started to get the blues.
View on the film:
Landing in the country with a "Free Tunisia" sign blowing in the wind, the screenplay by co-writer/(with Maud Ameline) director Manele Labidi wonderfully plays breezy, fish out of water comedic antics, with a serious state about the fragile state of democracy in the country,with Derwich's clients laying on the sofa telling her their problems behind the up-beat image they present in public.
In the middle of cops looking for backhanders and Derwich hearing how the country is a powder keg, the writers find the Rom-Com style zest in the middle of the crowd, via playfully snappy exchanges between psychiatrist Derwich and her patients, which bounce to the meet-cute between Derwich and a rough edge cop with a heart of gold.
Giving Derwich a house warming party with a crane shot across her home, director Labidi & cinematographer Laurent Brunet paint the Tunisian landscape with a bubbly atmosphere of glossy whip-pans in the counselling meetings, and warm,soft-focus close-ups on the widening grin of Derwich.
Passionately breaking the orders of her family by starting her own counselling business, Golshifteh Farahani gives a delightful turn as Derwich,thanks to mixing a kooky sass for one-liners with a sweet sincerity for the blues.
View on the film:
Landing in the country with a "Free Tunisia" sign blowing in the wind, the screenplay by co-writer/(with Maud Ameline) director Manele Labidi wonderfully plays breezy, fish out of water comedic antics, with a serious state about the fragile state of democracy in the country,with Derwich's clients laying on the sofa telling her their problems behind the up-beat image they present in public.
In the middle of cops looking for backhanders and Derwich hearing how the country is a powder keg, the writers find the Rom-Com style zest in the middle of the crowd, via playfully snappy exchanges between psychiatrist Derwich and her patients, which bounce to the meet-cute between Derwich and a rough edge cop with a heart of gold.
Giving Derwich a house warming party with a crane shot across her home, director Labidi & cinematographer Laurent Brunet paint the Tunisian landscape with a bubbly atmosphere of glossy whip-pans in the counselling meetings, and warm,soft-focus close-ups on the widening grin of Derwich.
Passionately breaking the orders of her family by starting her own counselling business, Golshifteh Farahani gives a delightful turn as Derwich,thanks to mixing a kooky sass for one-liners with a sweet sincerity for the blues.