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Foreign Film Series Spring 2010
FREE and open to all! Tuesdays 3:30 pm, Lecture Hall A Science Building. March 30, 2010
Silences of the Palace (Tunisia 1996)
This "exquisite, compelling" (Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times) film is a rare work by a woman filmmaker working in an Arab country, as well as an emotionally powerful look at the role of women in a changing world. Set in Tunisia in the 1950s, Tlatli tells the personal story of servant women living through the last days of French colonial rule, virtual prisoners in the palace of "the beys." Winner of the Camera dOr at Cannes Film Festival.
In French with English subtitles.
Director: Moufida Tlatli, 127 minutes
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