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Arab Blues

Arab Blues

Comedy · Drama · 2020

Selma, a psychoanalyst, deals with a cast of colorful new patients after returning home to Tunisia to open a practice.

Movie details

Arab Blues

2020 Comedy · Drama 1h 28m

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TMDB

6.1 / 10

Community rating

Selma, a psychoanalyst, deals with a cast of colorful new patients after returning home to Tunisia to open a practice.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

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The archetype split

Who fights over Arab Blues?

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Manele Labidi

Written by

Manele Labidi

Golshifteh Farahani

Golshifteh Farahani

Selma

Hichem Yacoubi

Hichem Yacoubi

Raouf

Majd Mastoura

Majd Mastoura

Naïm

A

Aïsha Ben Miled

Olfa

R

Ramla Ayari

Amel

F

Fériel Chammari

Baya

Najoua Zouhair

Najoua Zouhair

Nour

Court is in session

Put Arab Blues on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Prestige Tourist

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Popcorn Loyalist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.