Rachida
by Yamina Bachir
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Actor: Bahia Rachedi, Hamid Remas, Ibtissem Djouadi, Rachida Messaoui En, Zaki BoulenafedDirector: Yamina Bachir
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Arabic (Original Language); French (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-03-22
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: FIRST RUN FEATURES
Movie Reviews of Rachida
Movie Review: 4.5 stars for Rachida
Summary: 5 Stars
The film Rachida is one of the few recent treatments of contemporary Algeria widely available to western viewers.* As such, it's incredibly important.
The first portion of the film explores the difficult social/political circumstances faced by everyday people during the civil strife of the 1990s, such as curfews and water rationing. Rachida (based on a real woman) is wounded during a confrontation with a group of young -- what's the appropriate word? -- terrorists, criminals...? The film leaves their affiliation unknown; Rachida's attackers wear hip clothes rather than robes and beards, a significant point for western viewers to consider.
During the second half of the film, Rachida and her mother relocate to the countryside in hopes that she'll be able to heal there. Unfortunately, they encounter a different set of predators outside the city. Again, affiliations are ambiguous. (I assume that this was intentional on the part of Bachir-Chouikh, maybe as a reflection of how complex the conflicts of the 90s were... no clear matter of religion vs secular government, Us vs Them, etc.)
Overall, the director seemed to want to emphasize the sad (yet hopeful) condition of the children, and the fearful paralysis experienced by the populace at large in the face of terror.
Not easy to watch, but nicely done and worth seeing.
Elizabeth ("fullmoonblue")
* -- It's a bit more recent than Merzak Allouache's Bab el-Oued, and set in Algeria rather than France such as films like La Haine, or Yamina Benguigui's Inchallah Dimanche.
Summary of Rachida
{BEST FEATURE FILM, Audience Award-- 2002 Amiens Film Festival}{UN CERTAIN REGARD-- 2002 Cannes Film Festival}
{SATYAJIT RAY AWARD-- 2002 London Film Festival}
The first full-length feature film by Yamina Bachir evokes memories of the worst atrocities of the terror in Algeria. RACHIDA is a moving story about a community - and especially the courageous women in it - under the threat of terror. It's a world where there is little escape from terrorism, where you can be kidnapped, raped, or shot in any moment.
The young Rachida is teaching at a school in Algiers, when she is stopped in the street by a group of youths who demand she take a bomb and place it in the school. When Rachida refuses, she is cold-bloodedly shot and left for dead. Richida miraculously survives this attack, and to recover, she hides with her mother in a village far from the city. In spite of her endless fear, Rachida starts to feel whole again when she begins to teach and make new friends. Sadly, violence is unavoidable there too, and she and the other villagers must bravely continue to find small signs of hope among the endless despair.
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