Change Your Image
elisa-matteoni
Reviews
The World Unseen (2007)
All at once
The film is settled in 1950s South Africa while black people are persecuted by the white ones. Amina is a free and independent woman who runs a café' together with a coloured friend who is barred from owning any kind of business because of the colour of his skin. For this reason the girl is always on the front line helping persecuted people, and hiding them from the police. Instead Miriam is a wife with two children and an husband, Omar, whose sister married a white guy against the law that forbid mixed marriage. This is an absorbing history that handles different social pathologies. At the same time it talks about an unexpected love story that relieves from the pressure of the apartheid, theme that is the common thread of all the stories told.
I Can't Think Straight (2008)
Love story
Unbelievable how a love story can intrigue so much. A tale about love, cheaters, envy and different cultures that give director Shamim Sharif's competitors a hard time. By the musics, costumes and make-up it is possible to go through the way of life of two young Middle Eastern women who decided to follow their real feeling in contempt of the consequencies of their actions and decisions. At the same time we can appreciate the unexpected open-minded behaviour of the characters in the movie. Both young and old people accept the condition of things and try to understand the passion that tie Tala and Leyla. A women love story.