Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces
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Actor: Fatima Ben Saïdane, Mustapha Adouani, Rabia Ben Abdallah, Walid Bahri, Zahira Ben AmmarBrand: Kino International
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Arabic (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Running Time: 98 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-02-24
Audience Rating: Unrated
Model: 3092
Studio: Kino Video
Product features:
- HALFOUINE ASFOUR STAH (DVD MOVIE)
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DVD Review: coming of age of an arab boy
Summary: 5 Stars
This moving story gives a believeable, touching account of a Tunisian boy's coming of age. Halfaouine is the name of a popular, working-class neighbourhood of Tunis, where Noura lives. He is first introduced to us as a 13-year-old-boy who is still in his childhood, since he spends all his time with his mother and the women of the house and neighbourhood. We are shown this in an intimate scene in which Noura's mother is removing the hair from her legs in his company, or when he is with his mother and divorced aunt while they are talking of women's things.
Noura has never paid very much attention to such every day happenings, until, prompted by his adolescent friends, he learns two things: that men do not keep company with women, and that women are fascinating creatures. However, the very same discovery of these two elementary facts means that his childhood has finished for good. Noura's last visit of the hamman in the women's time is wonderfully hilarious. He just really SEES how women are for the first time, and is duly discovered by histerically screaming women who see a man's (and not a boy's) eyes examining their bodies (he had promised his buddies an exhaustive report of this visit).
But this awakening of Noura will not be restricted to the way of looking at women. The whole neighbourhood, where he has spent all his life, and the people who are around, are different now, too. He, and we through him, begins to see the importance of the reletions between people, and how what people think or say about you can affect your life in such a small place as Halfaouine, where everybody knows each other. He also discovers you can do things considered bad, provided nobody knows about it, and that anything you do in the open must be submitted to the judgement of your neighbours...or worse (as is the case with his divorced aunt or his politically rebellious neighbour), in short, he discovers that to be a grown-up you must sacrifice your innocence or suffer the consequences.
But, all in all, being a grown-up seems promising from the vantage point of the "terraces" of Halfaouine, where Noura hangs out all day with his friends, and from which he studies and learns about life.
This film not only gives us an account of the coming-of-age theme, it also offers, through the extraordinary testimony of everyday life, among ordinary people in an Arab city, ample proof that the theme is universal and, as such, an apt way of uniting different cultures through something that we all share.
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