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This first Tunisian feature film has won several awards in festivals. Hinde Boujemaa's "Noura rêve" won the Golden Tanit at the Carthage Film Days in Tunisia. This is a beautiful portrait of a woman, the story of an ordinary Tunisian who dreams of freedom in a country where adultery is punishable by law.
What does Noura dream about? This forty-year-old mother of three children would like to be able to love Lassad, her lover, freely. She thinks she can easily divorce her husband, Jamel, a little crook serving a prison sentence. But Jamel is released and does not accept that his wife is cheating on him with another man.
Noura and her lover Lassad are at great risk, they can go to jail if they are caught in the act of adultery. For the director Hinde Boujemaa, this legal framework is however not the prerogative of only Tunisia:
" For example, in 21 states in the United States, it is also subject to a criminal penalty, as in Tunisia. In France, adultery was decriminalized in 1975, so quite recently. Finally, it is a story of very personal jealousy that becomes exposed to the law. And I think it's abnormal. From a famous line that is in the Ten Commandments : " You will not commit adultery", here we are, on the whole earth, on a subject that is deeply about the order of the freedom of intimacy or criminalized or penalized, where there is, anyway, the collective male gaze and unconscious on us, the women. "
Worn by this indignation, Hinde Boujemaa delivers a story very incarnate, very intimate. Noura dreams especially since the actress Hend Sabri camps with strength and charisma Noura very human, torn between his love and his children.
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