Arab Blues
(2020)
★ 6.1 IMDb · 252 votes
Year: 2020
Runtime: 88 мин
Country: France, Tunisia
Director: Manele Labidi
Cast: Гольшифте Фарахани, Hichem Yacoubi, Majd Mastoura, Aïsha Ben Miled, Ramla Ayari, Feryel Chammari, Najoua Zouhair, Jamel Sassi, Rim Hamrouni, Mhadheb Rmili
Plot
Selma, a psychoanalyst, deals with a cast of colorful new patients after returning home to Tunisia to open a practice.
After 10 years of living in Paris, Selma (Golshifteh Farahani) has returned to Tunis. Back home, her younger cousin can't figure out why she'd leave the French capital, her aunt is overbearing, and her uncle is only giving her a matter of weeks to crash in the apartment above their house. Selma, nonetheless, is steadfast in her resolve: she wants to open up a psychotherapy practice. So begins the first feature directed and written by Manele Labidi, an incisive comedy about coming home, breaking taboos, and building community. As Selma tries to settle in, she's faced with increasing complications that she couldn't have predicted. There isn't just the matter of finding interested psychotherapy patients in a locale that's not keen on the talking cure, but she also needs to navigate a confusing bureaucratic circus in order to get the right papers to run her practice. On top of all that, a strapping cop, Naim (Majd Mastoura), is keeping a close eye on her every move.