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      A Summer in La Goulette

      1996 1h 40m Comedy Drama List
      Reviews 55% 50+ Ratings Audience Score Girls from different families are forbidden to see one another after they are caught flirting with boys from other religions. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member This how to wear it What a creep! Look how good r you.. you're beautiful so delicate so elegant I like the veil it's easy to wear Sometimes i wear it over my slip when i run errands and I'm incognito ! Over your slip.. so i can wear it naked ? Over something light ,you mean No totally naked You mean , nude underneath? Why not ? It would have to be really hot outside..what an idea ! Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review ahmed s Director's Ferid Boghedir's second "revolutionary" and "controversial" sexual adventure drama accomplishes nothing more than his first feature Halfouine. While the message in the movie is very powerful and clear (it's that no matter how different people might seem, there are always some similarities and interests that all people from the same age and community share and that helps in uniting the whole country no matter how many religions and ethnicities live and interact together), but the one dimensional dialogue and the Boughadir's execution of the idea fails to ultimately address the movie's real message and instead made it feel like the Tunisian version of American Pie, a tasteless sex comedy that happens to have some sort of a message behind it. N.B.: If you're Egyptian, you'll be shocked to know that Gamil Rateb is a part of a major nude scene in the movie. Guess it's not just Tunisians that are ok with nudity after all!! Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Lots of hot girls lolling in bed in their underpants on hot summer days, and old men and young boys peeking at them through cracks in walls and doors while they're bathing naked, and evil landlords spilling milk on virginal thighs. It's kind of like a super-soft porn Olive Garden commercial with Arabic flourishes...like ululating. So much ululating. It's set in 1967, but the dresses at the wedding party had very 80s-esque pouf to their sleeves... And Claudia Cardinale...Claudia Cardinale did not look anything like Claudia Cardinale in the 60s. I mean, of course, she wouldn't thirty years later...but...why have her play her 30-year-younger-self and give a completely wrong impression of how hot she was? Watchable, but insubstantial. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Audience Member Another Shallow movie .. very shallow It may be beautiful for us - not tunisian - who watch it for the first time as we come to know something new about the green beautiful Tunis .. This is the 3rd tunisian film I watch , and I swear they are amazingly very similar to the extent that the same actors/actresses play the same rule in each film !! It's very strange and stupid thing ! however, I like it's spirit .. and I like also that they break the Sex Tapoo ! Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Audience Member This movie brought back so many memories of Tunis and its people. It's a story of three friends who decide they will lose thier virginity on a specific date. It's a nice comedy with doses of drama. I saw the other movie by this director called "Halfouine" also based in Tunis.I love this type of movies. Recommend must see movie. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Audience Member An amusing, wistful postcard from the past. La Goulette is a little seaside town in Tunisia, and this film captures the late 1960s in multiethnic and multireligious northern Tunisia that no longer exists. Ferid Boughedir is one of the best known North African directors, and this paean to the lost North Africa at the edge of disaster (the second Arab-Israeli war) celebrates diversity as well as female beauty. Nominally, the film is about a trio of young girls - Jewish, Italian, and Muslim - who are determined to lose their virginity. As a metaphor, this works: in general the Maghreb and the Middle East broke many former seals of peace, among races and peoples, with the Israeli-Arab conflict. The Christians and Jews (outside Israel) dwindled, and over time the polarization and fundamentalism drove out or eliminated the more esoteric Muslim sects. So much of the wondrous variety of the lands was forever lost. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/09/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis Girls from different families are forbidden to see one another after they are caught flirting with boys from other religions.
      Director
      Férid Boughedir
      Producer
      Hassine Soufi
      Screenwriter
      Férid Boughedir
      Genre
      Comedy, Drama
      Original Language
      French (Canada)
      Runtime
      1h 40m