The push and pull of cultural heritage is married to coming-of-age in Nineties France in Kamir Aïnouz's feature debut, which while getting to the heart of young desire struggles to fully integrate its political themes.
"You're Algerian?" says one of the admissions interviewers at the college that 17-year-old Selma (Zoé Adjani) wants to attend, "It doesn't show", the first of many references to both an inherent prejudice in French society and to the way that some things can resonate deeply even if they are not visible on the surface.
"I'm double," says Selma, who was raised in an upper middle-class French household although her parents are both Algerian, although, a better term might be "split" - as just as she begins to explore her sexuality and self-determination, she begins to be steered down a different path by her overbearing mum (Amira Casar) and overprotective father (Lyès Salem), who though...
"You're Algerian?" says one of the admissions interviewers at the college that 17-year-old Selma (Zoé Adjani) wants to attend, "It doesn't show", the first of many references to both an inherent prejudice in French society and to the way that some things can resonate deeply even if they are not visible on the surface.
"I'm double," says Selma, who was raised in an upper middle-class French household although her parents are both Algerian, although, a better term might be "split" - as just as she begins to explore her sexuality and self-determination, she begins to be steered down a different path by her overbearing mum (Amira Casar) and overprotective father (Lyès Salem), who though...
- 4/13/2021
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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