Type:
Feature Film
Director:
Raja Amari
Year:
2002
Time:
95 minutes
Written by:
Raja Amari
Edited by:
Pauline Dairou
Language:
Arabic with English subtitles
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Winner! New Director's Showcase Award
- Seattle International Film Festival, 2002
"Spirited and Sensuous!"
- Jan Stuart, Newsday
"Exhilarating! The most good-hearted yet sensual entertainment I'm likely to see all year!"
- Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
A Tunisian widow takes an unlikely journey of self-discovery in Raja Amari's sumptuous and sensual Satin Rouge. While investigating a suspected liaison between her headstrong teenaged daughter and a cabaret musician, Lilia becomes drawn to an exhilarating nightclub netherworld of Rubénesque belly dancers and nocturnal pleasure-seekers. In trading her shapeless housedresses for sequins and satin, she begins to emerge from her cocoon of melancholy and loneliness.
Writer-director Amari's tale of liberation recalls Douglas Sirks 1950s suburban melodramas as it also paints a distinctly modern portrait of Arab women.
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