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A Wife for My Son (1982)

A Wife for My Son poster
Original title
Une Femme Pour mon Fils
Directed by
Ali Ghalem
Genre
drama
Country
Algeria
Runtime
1h 30m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

In 1980s Algeria, an 18-year-old woman named Fatiha is forced by her parents into a traditional marriage with an older man named Hocine. She struggles against her new role as a wife and daughter-in-law, and her husband later leaves to work in France while she becomes pregnant.

slow-burnmelancholictenseemotionally restrainedintimatesoberculturally rootedgently tragic

What happens

Une femme pour mon fils (, Jowjet libni) est un film algérien réalisé par Ali Ghalem et sorti en 1982. En 1980, Fatiha est une jeune Algérienne de 18 ans qui va devoir se plier à la volonté de ses parents : épouser Hocine, un homme plus âgé qu'elle n'a pas choisi. Elle ne peut éviter ce mariage à la mode traditionnelle, mais ne l'accepte pas de bon cœur, causant de multiples scènes familiales chez elle et dans sa famille d'adoption notemment sa belle mère aicha. Son mari part travailler en France alors que Fatiha est enceinte de son premier enfant, cette naissance l'aidera-t-elle à accepter sa condition de femme ? (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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