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Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Beautiful, moving film.

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Sweet, and ultimately surprisingly complex. A middle aged Tunisian widow re-discovers herself and her sexuality through belly dancing at a nightclub. For a while it plays a bit like a Hollywood fantasy (her transition from mousy loner to extroverted pro belly dancer is absurdly quick and easy), but with time the film grows into areas of greater subtlety; not just a woman breaking free in a repressive culture, but spotlighting the wonderful sexiness of a self-accepting woman in her 40s (something few western films do), and the dark along with the light that comes with sexual liberation (the club is right on the edge of feeling like a creepy strip club, where a number of the dancers works as prostitutes). Throw in the fact that our heroin sleeps (unknowingly) with her daughter's boyfriend and yet is neither condemned or punished for it, plus the film's deliberately ambiguous ending involving said boyfriend and daughter, and the film well transcends its 'Flashdance goes Islam' first half to become something wonderful and emotionally complex.

If you have a fondness of belly dancers like I do me, than this is an excellent movie. This movie has a perfect presentation of belly dancing in the Middle Eastern world. To me belly dancing is more than just a dance. It is a beautiful culture. Belly dancing is glamorous, sensual and mysterious. Belly dancers where such beautiful costumes and have such beautiful and sensual movements movements. That is why belly dancers are sometimes called "The flowers of the desert". This movie is about Lilia a depressed single mother and widow with a teenage daughter. One night Lilia who one night walks into a cabaret where belly dancers perform. Lilia befriends one of the dancers. Lilia tries one a belly dance costume and the belly dancer that Lilia has befriended talks her into performing at the cabaret and Lilia becomes one of the regular belly dance performers. Lilia is also able to relieve herself of her melancholy by letting herself go. So this film shows that belly dancing can have great mental benefits as well as great physical benefits. So if you like belly dancers than I certainly recommend this movie.

Well, you'd better if you plan on sitting through this amateurish, bland, and pokey flick about a middle-aged widowed mom who has a little more in common with her young adult or old teen daughter than she would like. Set in Tunis, mom piddles around the flat, gets antsy, and decides, albeit reluctantly (she just can't help herself), to don the costume and dance in a local cabaret. Meanwhile her daughter is taking dancing lessons. The common denominator is a Tunisian band drummer. This film is so full of filler I watched the DVD at x2 and read the subtitles, fast forwarding through much of the very ordinary dancing and loooong shots of walking (they walk everywhere) and more walking and just plain dawdling at x4 just to get though this boring, uneventful, low budget flick which some how garnered some pretty good critical plaudits. Go figure. (C-)

great coming of age film about a middle aged woman who finds out that she has a lot of life in her and to live. and i loved the sound track! the comment has been made that the first half of the film was slow but i just found it very "french". however, the 2nd half of the film was not edited nearly as well. its good to see a film in which older women are portrayed as sensually desirable!