Inch'Allah Dimanche
by Yamina Benguigui
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Actor: Fejria Deliba, Jalil Lespert, Marie-France Pisier, Mathilde Seigner, Zinedine SoualemDirector: Yamina Benguigui
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Arabic (Original Language); French (Original Language); French (Unknown); English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 98 minutes
Published: 2003
DVD Release Date: 2005-01-01
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Film Movement
Movie Reviews of Inch'Allah Dimanche
Movie Review: Important But Not Very Enjoyable...
Summary: 3 Stars
This film seemed intriguing, because it was supposed to deal with the issues of immigration, integration and the plight of women, so I rented it. It was not a bad film, but I cannot say that I really enjoyed it. Characters were one-dimensional and not well-developed. Zouina was obviously the victim and I felt sorry for her, but she was not a very likeable person. She seemed to be cold, aloof and emotionally constricted, and have little regard for anyone else as a result - perhaps she was supposed to be that way because of her assigned role and misery. Except when she met another Algerian woman - it seemed that the two instantly became as close as two people who have known each other for ages, at least until the other Algerian woman figured out why Zouina came by. I found it very surprising that all these French people around her - like the missing colonel's wife, bus driver, Nicole and even the grocery store clerk - liked her so much and took such an interest in her, even before getting to know her and her situation. With the exception of the gardener neighbors, the elderly couple, who were understandably suspicious (they were not xenophobic, by the way), the local French residents seemed especially well-disposed and welcoming. Some of the details in the plot did not make much sense to me - maybe there is a cultural disconnect here. For example, why did Zouina, who was generally very obedient, stripped to her undergarments and fought the neighbor lady over the soccer ball? Why did she bring home the corpse of the dog, which belonged to the missing colonel's wife? Why did she throw out the damaged makeup and cosmetics on the street - is it to attract Nicole's attention (as it happened, Nicole was just walking by), or is it an Algerian custom to dispose of the garbage that way? Finally, however lonely and desperate she was, what could she have expected from another Algerian family? I sympathize with the plight of women in Africa, Asia and the Middle East and I think that there should be more films like this one. I wish that the characters were a bit more sympathetic and understandable, however. Films like this should bring us, people of different backgrounds, closer together and help us to re-discover the things that we all have in common. I would like to be of help to someone like Zouina but (as much as I hate to admit it), after watching this film, I would not want to be neighbors with that particular family, even without that monster of a mother-in-law.
Summary of Inch'Allah Dimanche
In the aftermath of World War 2, France attempted to replenish its weakened work force by recruiting men from North Africa. In the mid-1970's, the French government relaxed its immigration policy to allow the families of Algerian men to join them. Inch'Allah Dimanche provides us with a deeply moving memoir of the sense of isolation and vulnerability that the immigrant family experienced upon their arrival at a time when racial integration was virtually non-existent.Zouina (Fejria Deliba in a richly emotional performance) is a woman who is torn from her home in Algeria. With her three children and her abrupt mother-in-law, Aicha (Rabia Modedem), she rejoins her husband in a foreign and unaccommodating land. She finds herself feeling imprisoned between a distant husband who scorns her, a hostile mother-in-law and a neighbor (a comedic France Darry) who is afraid of Fejria's otherness. But Zouina's finally begins to feel a sense of acceptance when she meets a cosmetics factory worker who sparks in Zouina an interest in French culture and her new world. This curiosity, and her longing for freedom and experience, drives Zouina to take secret excursions with her children on Sundays, the one day that her husband and mother-in-law are out of the house. Through these little adventures, she comes to terms with the difficulties of immigration, change, and adaptation to a new culture.
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