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Some Like It Veiled

OT: Cherchez la femme

Sou Abadi // France, 2017
Fiction Feature // FF2017
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Story

Armand and Leila are a couple and would like to go to New York to do a practical at the United Nations. But everything is put on hold when Leila’s brother Mahmoud comes back from Yemen – complete with beard and prayer beads. He condemns his sister’s Western lifestyle and forbids her to have contact with her boyfriend. Armand goes on the offensive. In reality a left-wing radical activist, he gets hold of a niqab and pretends to be Leila’s female Islam tutor. The trick works – a little too well, for Mahmoud falls head over heels for his sister’s pious Muslim tutor. Some Like It Veiled is an extremely funny, politically incorrect anarcho-comedy.

Director

At 15, SOU ABADI (*1968) moved from Iran to France and worked at first as an editor. In 2002, her documentary SOS Tehran won much acclaim. Some Like It Veiled is her debut feature.

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Cherchez la femme

Fiction Feature

Arabic, French

Voilà!//FF2017


France

2017

87 min

OV with German subtitles

Sou Abadi

Sou Abadi

Felix Moati, Camélia Jordana, William Lebghil

Michaël Gentile

Yves Angelo

Virginie Bruant

Jerome Rebotier

Denis Gautelier

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The Film; France 2 Cinema; Mars Films

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