Tag: Nadia Ben Rachid

Black Tea | Review

Spill the Tea: Sissako Flounders with Tepid Brew The level of ineptitude apparent in every regard of Black Tea, Abderrahmane Sissako’s first narrative feature in...

Sisters | Review

O Brother, Where Art Thou?: Benguigui Explores Fractured Cultural Identities in Meta Drama It’s been two decades since French-Algerian filmmaker Yamina Benguigui released her exceptional...

Beauty and the Dogs | Review

Body Talk: Ben Hania’s Troubled and Troubling Portrait of Sexual Assaul Perfectly encapsulating, perhaps to the heights of exaggeration and exploitation, why victims of sexual...

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La petite dernière (The Little Sister) | Review

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Interview: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud – Persepolis

The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.