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.Trailer
Info
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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Films Distribution
The Film; France 2 Cinema; Mars Films
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