SoilentFour Daughters
(Les filles d’Olfa)
2023
There are many attempts to tell a story by focusing on how it came about. However, Kaouther Ben Hania creates an experimental narrative here, reconstructing a family story embedded in social events in such a way that it unfolds in a dramaturgically extraordinary way.
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A ★★★★½ review of Four Daughters (2023)
[English] There are many attempts to tell a story by focusing on how it came about. However, Kaouther Ben Hania creates an experimental narrative here, reconstructing a family story embedded in social events in such a way that it unfolds in a dramaturgically extraordinary way. Olfa lives in Tunisia with her four daughters, the two eldest, Ghofrane and Rahma, suddenly disappear. At the beginning of the movie, all she says is: "The wolves took her". It sounds like a metaphor, but as the film progresses it becomes clear that this refers to the Islamic State. After Ghofrane and Rahma initially
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