A Chadian high school student becomes pregnant in “Lingui, les ties sacrés”.
In this film presented at the Cannes Film Festival, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun shows how women help each other in a patriarchal society.
Although he tackles serious themes, the director remains optimistic.
The hardships that Chadian women undergo make you shudder.
Lingui, the sacred ties
of Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, presented in competition at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, demonstrates that sorority is not in vain in Africa.
It may even be the only way to survive in a patriarchal society.
A brilliant high school student sees her future shattered when she becomes pregnant in this country where abortion is punishable by law.
On a theme close to
L'Événement
, the director of
Grigris
and
A Screaming Man
follows the young woman as she searches for a solution with the help of her mother.
If Audrey Diwan's film was set in the 1960s, it is nowadays that
Lingui's
heroine
is going through her ordeal, which makes the film particularly poignant.
"In Chad, many women organize themselves to help each other", explained the director during the press conference of the film.
Cunning stronger than violence
Abortion is at the center of the film, but other issues are also unvarnished.
Rape and excision are important themes addressed in this serious work which manages to remain optimistic despite the adversity suffered by its heroines.
"It was difficult for a long time to film women because they feared for their image," says Mahamat-Saleh Haroun.
For this film, I had the chance to see women open up and talk about these issues.
"
Lingui
gives a voice to those who use cunning and solidarity rather than violence to get out of business.
The intelligence of a story that takes on the appearance of a thriller surprises just as much as the generosity of the subject.
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"We must dissociate legal abortion and clandestine abortion", insists the director Audrey Diwan
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"Women directors have long been seen as feminists with hairy underarms," recalls Jane Campion.
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