Birr Film Club
Dir: Radu Mihaileanu, France, Morocco, Italy, 2011 125 mins, Cert: CLUB
In a small, drought-ridden village situated somewhere between North Africa and the Middle East, widespread unemployment and the relative stability of peaceful times have left the male population with little to do but sit around the village, drinking tea and idling away the day. The women are still expected to fetch water from a mountaintop spring. The journey is fraught with difficult and danger. Whilst initially, it appears that this film may appear too simplistic and one-sided with the women as heroic rebels and the men as feckless chauvinists locked in an unsustainable notion of women as wives and mothers who know their place and never complain. Fortunately, the perspectives do shift and we also gain a sense of how some of the men feel emasculated by the erosion of their traditional roles.
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Event date & time: 13.11.2012 at 20:00
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