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Arab Blues

2020 · 88 min

A gentle, wry comedy about a woman navigating quirky patients and cultural expectations, warm and quietly observant.

Directed by: Manele Labidi
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Starring: Golshifteh Farahani, Hichem Yacoubi, Majd Mastoura

Overview: Selma, a psychoanalyst, deals with a cast of colorful new patients after returning home to Tunisia to open a practice.

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Directed by: Manele Labidi
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Starring: Golshifteh Farahani, Hichem Yacoubi, Majd Mastoura

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Tone: warmstrength 2 of 3
lightstrength 2 of 3
satiricalstrength 1 of 3
earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: identity
family
class
healing
freedom
Places: big city
workplace
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: ensemble
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild

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Action	1
Horror	0
Humour	6
Realism	7
Romance	2
Tension	3
Darkness	3
Complexity	4
Emotional weight	5

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Genres: comedy, drama
Directed by: Manele Labidi
Written by: Manele Labidi
Starring: Golshifteh Farahani, Hichem Yacoubi, Majd Mastoura, Aïsha Ben Miled, Ramla Ayari, Fériel Chammari, Najoua Zouhair, Jamel Sassi
Music: Flemming Nordkrog
Cinematography: Laurent Brunet
Runtime: 88 min
Country: France, Tunisia
Languages: Arabic, French

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