Three teenage girlfriends, neighbours in a cheap apartment building, seem to embody hope for the future. The film focuses on the girls as they work together towards their first sexual experiences that they want to achieve this summer. This film, like silences of the palace is structured around the gaze. They would like to have their first sexual experience during that summer. Make your movie list and get blurays and dvds conveniently delivered to you with free shipping both ways. Three teenage girlfriends live in an apartment complex near goulette beach in 1967, and during the summer they make a pact to lose their virginity.
There are certainly deeper messages lurking beneath the humor and carefree nature of the film. Tunisian, or even african films arent part of my usual diet. Their fathers, youssef, jojo and giuseppe, are old friends and their friendship will be. Youssef a muslim, jojo a jew and giuseppe a catholic are best of friends. Political tensions in the middle east are the backdrop. Goulette article about goulette by the free dictionary. The 1996 film, directed by filmmaker ferid boughedir is a tunisian classic. They would like to have their first sexual experience during that summer, challenging. More than anything, it is a story of looking back and growing up, of nostalgia for a time and a place that was more.
They would like to have their first sexual experience during that summer, challenging their. Comedy, drama set in a tunisian meltingpot town in 1967 and loosely based on the reminiscences of filmmaker ferid boughedir, this bittersweet comedydrama tells the tale of how the secret. This film, like silences of the palace is structured around. Their fathers, youssef, jojo and giuseppe, are old friends and their friendship will be in. Find showtimes, gouletge trailers, browse photos, track your watchlist and rate your favorite movies and tv shows on your phone or tablet. This is all set in a small tunisian coastal town in the sixties. More than anything, it is a story of looking back and growing up, of nostalgia for a time and a place that. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and touching films with plots about youth, coming of age, teenage life, friends, friendship, family relations and love and romance mostly in drama, comedy and romance genres. Sonia mankai, ava cohenjonathan, sarah pariente year.
They would like to have their first sexual experience during that summer, challenging their families. Comedy, drama set in a tunisian meltingpot town in 1967 and loosely based on the reminiscences of filmmaker ferid boughedir, this bittersweet comedydrama tells the tale of how the secret conspiracy between three teen. Set in a tunisian meltingpot town in 1967 and loosely based on the reminiscences of filmmaker ferid boughedir, this bittersweet comedydrama tells the tale of how the secret conspiracy between three teen girls to lose their virginity before they turn seventeen wreaks havoc on the lives and. One girl is sicilian and catholic, one is tunisian and arab, and the other one is french and jewish. A simple characterbased film a simple time in the simple town of goulette before tunisia had been sucked the wars plaguing its. In what ways is it similar to or different from the gaze in silences of the palace. Shot in the warm amber glow of nostalgia, it beautifully captures the end of innocence. Meriem sonia mankai attracts the eye of her familys aging. Ferid boughedir, ava cohen jonathan, sarah pariente sonia mankai.