FOREIGN BODY - Art House Theatre Day

Showings

Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 2 Sun, Sep 23, 2018 2:20 PM

Description

Art House Theatre Day

FOREIGN BODY
Corps Etrange

Sunday, September 23 at 2:20 pm | Members $11 | Public $16


Seeking refuge from her Islamist radical brother whom she informed on, a young woman arrives in France illegally following Tunisia’s Jasmine Revolution and discovers a new world of both hope and danger

In the turbulent aftermath of the Tunisian revolution, young Samia (Sarra Hannachi) flees her homeland. She braves hostile seas
in the crossing to France, but once there she finds that her struggles have only just begun. With no friends, no family, and — most
crucially — no immigration papers, Samia has to figure out how to make a life and a living in a foreign land. She meets a young
man, Imed (Salim Kechiouche, Blue is the Warmest Color), and soon finds work in the employ of the elegant Leila (the inimitable
Hiam Abbass). But her presence in Leila's middle-class household triggers a shift in its dynamics, and soon Samia is enmeshed in
a web of sexual tension.
Timely as it is, Foreign Body seems to typify a media narrative of forced mass migration: desperate, distressing, impossible. The film
transcends this sweeping, reductive thinking due to the way director Raja Amari immerses her camera in Samia's new reality. She
shoots with a close, handheld aesthetic that makes abstraction and generalization all but impossible, bringing us the story of a
unique young woman. (France, 2017, 92 min., NR, French & Tunisian with English subtitles | Dir. Raja Amari)

ng us the story of a unique young woman. (France, 2017, 92 min., NR, French & Tunisian with English subtitles | Dir. Raja Amari)