Hadja Lahbib’s insightful documentary focuses on Belgium’s Muslim community, where the older generation is making new connections
The subject of Belgium’s Muslim community is now a contentious one: a matter of jihadism and terrorism on the nightly news. This gentle, insightful documentary from Belgian-Algerian film-maker and journalist Hadja Lahbib takes a different slant, though it forms a different puzzle-piece of the larger picture.
Her film is about older north African-born Muslim women and their experience of life in Belgium. As submissive wives and mothers, they were told to be patient because their reward would be in a better place. But now that their husbands have died and no longer exert their iron control, this grandmother/widow generation is experiencing a piquant new freedom, and a gentle new connection with daughters and granddaughters. (Elsewhere, outside this film’s scope, younger Muslim men have different experiences.)
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The subject of Belgium’s Muslim community is now a contentious one: a matter of jihadism and terrorism on the nightly news. This gentle, insightful documentary from Belgian-Algerian film-maker and journalist Hadja Lahbib takes a different slant, though it forms a different puzzle-piece of the larger picture.
Her film is about older north African-born Muslim women and their experience of life in Belgium. As submissive wives and mothers, they were told to be patient because their reward would be in a better place. But now that their husbands have died and no longer exert their iron control, this grandmother/widow generation is experiencing a piquant new freedom, and a gentle new connection with daughters and granddaughters. (Elsewhere, outside this film’s scope, younger Muslim men have different experiences.)
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- 1/14/2016
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
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