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FOUR DAUGHTERS – Review by Jennifer Green

October 16, 2023October 22, 2023 Jennifer Green documentary, Eya, Four Daughters, Ichrak Matar, Kaouther Ben Hania, Les Filles d’Olfa, Nour Karoui, Olfa, Oscars submission, Tayssir, tunisian films

Tunisia’s official entry for the International Film Feature film Oscar, Four Daughters is a deeply emotional story told in captivating fashion by combining real people and actors in an unusual blend of reenactments and conversations. The film doesn’t unfurl in straight chronological order. Subjects regularly stop to talk to the camera or to each other about what’s going on in a scene or how they feel now. They’re often framed in doorways or glimpsed in mirrors, perhaps symbolic of the way they are letting us enter their lives and how they’re seeing their own story reflected in reenactments and acting.

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THE MAN WHO SOLD HIS SKIN – Review by Valerie Kalfrin

April 2, 2021April 2, 2021 Valerie Kalfrin Kaouther Ben Hania, Koen De Bouw, monica bellucci, oscars, The Man Who Sold His Skin, Yahya Mahayni

Some tattoos have such design and craftsmanship, they’re works of art. But what happens when a tattoo transforms someone into living artwork, effectively dehumanizing them? The Man Who Sold His Skin, an Oscar-nominee for Best International Feature Film, puts this dilemma on display through Sam, a Syrian refugee who consents to a full-back tattoo of a visa, then finds that this literal stamp of freedom confines him in other ways.