As its title suggests, Some Like It Veiled — or Cherchez la femme in French — takes the cross-dressing conceit of the Billy Wilder classic and updates it to the age of Islamic fundamentalism. It’s either a brilliant idea or a recipe for disaster, and in the hands of writer-director Sou Abadi, the film falls somewhere in between. Neither ridiculous nor particularly hilarious, it tackles a hot-button subject (burqas have been publicly banned in France since 2011) with enough caution to avoid seeming too offensive, professing in the end that love and family will always beat out religion.
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- 6/30/2017
- by Jordan Mintzer
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Two new film festivals in the Arab world — and not in the Gulf States region where Kuwait had its first festival last month — have announced their first editions. Jordan and Egypt, along with the first ever Arab Critics Awards casts a new light onto just what Arab cinema is.
What began several years ago in the recently oil-rich Gulf nations of Dubai, Abu-Dhabi and Qatar who first brought the notion of Arab cinema to the western world with expensive receptions (including a camel one year at the Toronto Film Festival) and ultra fancy festivals (Abu Dhabi has since bowed out of its Tribeca Ff partnership and pulled back on all but its film fund) has now come to a more balanced sharing of Arabic cinema as a multi-culturally wealthy medium.
With the growth of Cairo-based Mad Solutions which started as a public relations agency for Arab-content cinema and expanded into...
What began several years ago in the recently oil-rich Gulf nations of Dubai, Abu-Dhabi and Qatar who first brought the notion of Arab cinema to the western world with expensive receptions (including a camel one year at the Toronto Film Festival) and ultra fancy festivals (Abu Dhabi has since bowed out of its Tribeca Ff partnership and pulled back on all but its film fund) has now come to a more balanced sharing of Arabic cinema as a multi-culturally wealthy medium.
With the growth of Cairo-based Mad Solutions which started as a public relations agency for Arab-content cinema and expanded into...
- 6/4/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Exclusive: Edgy French comedy stars Felix Moati and French singer-turned-actress Camélia Jordana.
Films Distribution is reporting brisk business on market title Some Like It Veiled, a French-language cross-dressing burqa comedy with a contemporary spin.
The debut feature of Iranian-French filmmaker Sou Abadi, it stars Felix Moati and French singer-turned-actress Camélia Jordana as young French couple Armand and Leila whose relationship is threatened when her older brother Mahmoud returns from a trip to Yemen.
He now disapproves of Leila’s lifestyle and confines her to the home. To get around the restrictions, Armand dons a burqa and adopts the persona of Shéhérazade to keep seeing Leila. He plays the role so convincingly that Mahmoud starts falling for him too.
Film Distribution has sealed deals to Spain (Caramel Films), Greece (Feel Good), Austria (Filmladen), Italy (I Wonder Pictures), Germany (Nsp) and Switzerland (Frenetic), and Israel (New Cinema).
“It’s a classic comedy scheme in which cross-dressing is the comedy...
Films Distribution is reporting brisk business on market title Some Like It Veiled, a French-language cross-dressing burqa comedy with a contemporary spin.
The debut feature of Iranian-French filmmaker Sou Abadi, it stars Felix Moati and French singer-turned-actress Camélia Jordana as young French couple Armand and Leila whose relationship is threatened when her older brother Mahmoud returns from a trip to Yemen.
He now disapproves of Leila’s lifestyle and confines her to the home. To get around the restrictions, Armand dons a burqa and adopts the persona of Shéhérazade to keep seeing Leila. He plays the role so convincingly that Mahmoud starts falling for him too.
Film Distribution has sealed deals to Spain (Caramel Films), Greece (Feel Good), Austria (Filmladen), Italy (I Wonder Pictures), Germany (Nsp) and Switzerland (Frenetic), and Israel (New Cinema).
“It’s a classic comedy scheme in which cross-dressing is the comedy...
- 5/20/2017
- ScreenDaily
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