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Paris la blanche
With no news from her husband, who left in the ‘70s to work in France, a middle-aged Rekia leaves her village and goes on a journey to Paris. She crosses Algeria and the Mediterranean Sea, gets lost in the alleys of the quarter of Pigalle, to finally find her dear Nura in the distant suburb of Paris in a hostel for retired migrant workers. But her hero, a veteran of the struggle for the liberation of Algeria, has become quite different, has become a stranger.
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Good movie but grossly overrated
It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.
A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.
The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.
Excellent acting by the main actress, subtle but with a lot of expression. This movie should resonate with anyone who has been living apart from their family, for whatever reason. Courage and love are the key words here.
An Algerian man leaves his Algerian wife and young children and goes to work in France. He sends her money every month but does not return for 48 years. 48 years! After 48 years she finally decides to search for him. Why it takes her 48 years to make up her mind to look for him the movie does not even try to explain! Receiving help from kind strangers, she manages to find her husband. The wife pleads with him to return to Algeria and rejoin his family. The husband offers feeble explanations for his 48 year absence and for his manifest reluctance to heed her pleas: his children will not recognize him, etc. She refutes his vacuous explanations, but to no avail: he decides not to rejoin her and their family in Algeria and even asks her never to visit him again because it hurts him too much! Perhaps he requires another 48 years of separation before he can arrive at a different decision. If this is a love story, then I invented the wheel.
