‘Girls of the Sun’ First Trailer: Eva Husson’s Cannes Premiere Follows Female Fighters Battling Isis
“Women, life, liberty!” So goes the rallying cry of the battalion of female fighters that Eva Husson follows in her second feature, “Girls of the Sun.” Loosely based on the real-life stories of Kurdish women who were taken hostage by Islamic State fighters in Syria and Iraq who then decide to escape, fight back, and target the Isis extremists who had destroyed their homes and lives, Husson’s film debuted in competition at last year’s Cannes Film Festival.
It’s a story that seems unfortunately destined to be pegged as “timely,” but it’s also a rallying cry of hope in an increasingly fraught world and evidence of Husson’s growing skills as a filmmaker.
In his Cannes review of the film, IndieWire’s Eric Kohn wrote: “Husson’s second feature veers from taut showdowns of gun-wielding women reclaiming their lives to the weaker sentimental plot that surrounds them.
It’s a story that seems unfortunately destined to be pegged as “timely,” but it’s also a rallying cry of hope in an increasingly fraught world and evidence of Husson’s growing skills as a filmmaker.
In his Cannes review of the film, IndieWire’s Eric Kohn wrote: “Husson’s second feature veers from taut showdowns of gun-wielding women reclaiming their lives to the weaker sentimental plot that surrounds them.
- 3/19/2019
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
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