Actors: Lina El Arabi, Sébastien Houbani, Babak Karimi
Director: Stephan Streker
Writer: Stephan Streker
Cinematography by Grimm Vandekerckhove
Film Editing by Jérôme Guiot, Mathilde Muyard
Tag Archives: honor
“Sairat” by Nagraj Manjule (India, 2016)
Could have been an hour shorter / humor disappears halfway
Cast: Rinku Rajguru, Akash Thosar, Arbaz Shaikh
Director: Nagraj Manjule
Writers: Nagraj Manjule (story and screenplay), Nagraj Manjule (dialogue)
Music by Ajay Gogavale, Atul Gogavale
Cinematography by Sudhakar Reddy Yakkanti
Film Editing by Kutub Inamdar
“A Few Good Men” (Rob Reiner, USA 1992)
Cast: Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Kevin Bacon
Writers: Aaron Sorkin (play), Aaron Sorkin (screenplay)
Music: Marc Shaiman
Cinematography: Robert Richardson
Editing: Robert Leighton, Steven Nevius
“Story Of A Prostitute” (Seijun Suzuki, Japan 1965)
At the end of the movie, a Chinese woman says that the Japanese are always in a hurry to die. But dying is not difficult, it’s for the cowards. It’s living that is difficult.
Cast: Tamio Kawaji, Yumiko Nogawa, Isao Tamagawa
Director: Seijun Suzuki
Writers: Hajime Takaiwa, Taijirô Tamura (story)
Music: Naozumi Yamamoto
Cinematography: Kazue Nagatsuka
Editing: Akira Suzuki
“The Salesman” (Asghar Farhadi, Iran 2016)
Victim of an intruder, a woman not only suffers a psychological trauma, but has also to deal with her husband who seeks vengeance because his honor and status have been shattered.
Cast: Shahab Hosseini, Taraneh Alidoosti, Babak Karimi, Farid Sajjadi Hosseini
Director: Asghar Farhadi
Writer: Asghar Farhadi
Cinematographer: Hossein Jafarian
Composer: Sattar Oraki
Editor: Hayedeh Safiyari
“Incendies” (Denis Villeneuve, Canada 2010)
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Writers: Denis Villeneuve (scenario), Wajdi Mouawad (play)
Actors: Lubna Azabal, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Maxim Gaudette
“Parched” (Leena Yadav, India 2015)
Director: Leena Yadav
Writers: Supratik Sen (dialogue), Leena Yadav
Actors: Tannishtha Chatterjee, Radhika Apte, Lehar Khan
Domestic violence, honor, infertility, prostitution, child marriage, rape… These themes are treated in a traditional gender setting in Rajasthan.
The message of the movie is straightforward: while most men drink, commit adultery, are jealous and violent, women have fun, bring changes… and are at least as sexualized as their male counterparts.