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Friday, December 10, 21.00, "The Song of the Bride" by Karin Albou

Tunis, November 1942. Two teenagers, Myriam and Nour are friends and neighbors since childhood and share all the secrets. Nour, a Muslim, is in love with Khaled as the father does not want son until he has a job. Myriam, Jewish and an orphan's father is promised in marriage to Raoul, a wealthy physician much older than her, but able to heal the family financial problems. The two maintain a strong solidarity until the German occupation, backed by French collaborators, will not start action of propaganda designed to put Muslims against ebrei.Karin Albou has already faced in his first (unpublished in Italy) La petite Jérusalem the complex issue of the relationship between individuals and religion. Back now to deal with a story set in Tunisia involved in the Second World War the historical context in which acts as a catalyst for tensions that remain, however, universally valid. Why are these two young women have developed a strong solidarity so that it can be cracked only dall'irrompere ideologies that overlap with the human feel to engulf any attempt at rationality. The director, who also reserves the role of the mother of Miriam, the target, when decides to go beyond the politically correct (that is, showing the condition of Tunisian Muslims and those of their compatriots of Jewish origin) to tell a story that finds its expressive power in women. A condition that seems unable to escape either. Nour, Khaled much in love with a male as being ready to be indoctrinated without thinking. Myriam, for a man who detests but for which you 'must' prepare. Female bodies take on a great expression in a film that fails to produce them for voyeurism, but we make them 'feel' as subjects (see the scenes in the hammam) which may at any time become 'objects' to be possessed by deception and the subtle tendency (Khaled) or the power of money (Raoul). But it is not old-feminism. Albou also show the human side of the two male protagonists reserving Nour's father, two short scenes full of meaning. The viewer is put in a position to think that the two girls have too much in common because everything has to be corrupted by fear and slogans. But a world blinded by irrationality conspiracy to make it happen. Unfortunately it is not just history yesterday.