The Silences of the Palace (1994)
- Original title
- صمت القصور
- Directed by
- Moufida Tlatli
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- Tunisia, France
- Runtime
- 2h 07m
- Rated
- PG
- Rating
- 6.8 of 10 from 25 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A young wedding singer returns to the palace where she grew up and reflects on the hidden lives of her mother and the other women who worked there. The film shows how these women navigated sexual and social servitude under French rule in Tunisia.
contemplativepoignantmelancholicintimatereflectivetenseslow-burnvisually lushemotional
What happens
The Silences of the Palace (Arabic: صمت القصور, romanized: ṣamt al-quṣūr) is a 1994 Tunisian film co-written and directed by Moufida Tlatli. The film investigates issues of gender, class and sexuality in the Arab world through the lives of two generations of women at a prince's palace. Seen through the eyes of an attractive young wedding singer, it exposes the sexual and social servitude of a group of women in an elaborate palace during the French Protectorate in Tunisia. Tlatli wrote the film in response to her own mother's sudden severe illness and her subsequent realization of how little she knew about her life. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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