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Bookmark this pageThe Season of Men (1999)
Director: Moufida Tlatli
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From Time Out Film Guide
Tlatli's long-awaited follow-up to The Silences of the Palace plies similar territory: a family of women returns to the island where they used to live, cloistered away by absent working menfolk, to take stock. Cue flashbacks. The director's themes are sisterhood and sacrifice, eternal growing pains, inequity and inhibition, the weight of the past, the yielding of tradition to modernity. It's less ornate, the focus broader, the treatment open- and a little loose-ended; the tone more deftly ambivalent but gently hopeful.Author: NB
Cast & crew
Director: Moufida Tlatli
Producer: Margaret Ménégoz, Mohamed Tlatli
Cast: Rabiaa Ben Abdallah, Sabah Bouzouita, Ghalia Ben Ali, Hend Sabri, Ezzedine Guennoun, Mouna Noureddine full cast
Duration: 122 mins
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