This film is also known as Red Satin. After the death of her husband, Lilia's life revolves solely around her teenage daughter Salma. Before her husband’s death, Lilia was a seamstress. While looking for Salma late one night, Lilia comes by a belly dance cabaret. Though initially reserved and taken aback by the culture of this place, Lilia gets consistently drawn back to it. She befriends one of the belly dancers and is encouraged to dance for the audience. Lilia also starts a romance with one of the cabaret's musicians. The women don’t know that he is romancing both Lilia and Salma??
Lilia is very conservative at the beginning of this film. This is how she has lived her life. Usually she doesn’t leave her home at night ever. She has discovered belly dancing and she loves the sparkly outfits. From her first performance and onward you can see that she loves the dancing. Her joy is passed on to her audience. Over time, Lilia phases out her former friends and she gains entirely different new friends. This is a patient film and we follow along with the significant transformations in Lilia’s life. 3 1/2* (I liked this movie)
100 min, Drama directed and written by Raja Amari with Hiam Abbass, Hend El Fahem, Lassad Aroms, Dalah Daldoul, Maher Kamoun, Monia Hichri, Fouzia Badr, Nadra Lamloum, Abou Moez El Fazaa, Salah Miled,Mohamed Sayari.
Note: Imdb 6.7* out of 10* with 823 reviews, Rotten Tomatoes 83% with 47 critic reviews 71% with 500+ audience scores, Metacritic 73 out of 100 with 21 critic reviews 5.4 out of 10 with 5 user scores, Letterboxd 3.3* out of 5*, Austin. chronicle/events/film/2002-10-25/14/1816/ 3* out of 5*.
Special Note: Filmed in Tunisia and France, the languages are Arabic and French. The American opening weekend gross was $18,880 on 25 August 2002. The cumulative Worldwide Gross was $3,493,730.
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