Wadjda

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Kyle M @RT77296778 07/05/2025 Whether it’s critically transgressive in anosognosia need for societal progression or simply a coming-of-age slice of life, under normal circumstances, about an innocent wish, which is routine elsewhere, this film’s ideally led with performative charm for aligned empathy to reaffirm the underlying heartening faith through such intolerable distress. (B) See more dustin d @RT12543299 02/17/2022 Wadjda does an admirable job showing how religion, modernity and gender roles clash while also balancing respect for the culture. See more 12/15/2021 جميل جدا قصة من الواقع في كل تفاصيلها See more 06/11/2021 Wadjda is a story that does brilliantly to lift this issue up to our faces, and allow us to see the world from Muslim women's eyes. See more William L @RT77267842 06/05/2021 Wadjda will probably be remembered more for its place in the development of a new international film industry than it will as an innovative film unto itself. One of the first Saudi films shot almost entirely domestically, and by a female director, Wadjda delivers a story that focuses on an independently-minded young girl in the suburbs of Riyadh that doesn't conform to the standards of Islamic orthodoxy, attempting to scrounge together cash to purchase a bike (which carries its own symbolism - a defiance of convention, an escape from conflicted domestic life, and a sense of independence), while her mother raises her independently as social influences pull her marriage apart. In all honesty, the plot is rather predictable, a somewhat conventional adolescent-rebel-against-the-system narrative, but it is ably adapted to a new environment that hasn't been touched upon before. Decent performances, and a depiction of a Middle Eastern suburb that doesn't often get depicted without craters and bullets. (3.5/5) See more georgan g @RT98616417 03/09/2021 Watching women in a different culture deal with their issues feels so intimate. See more Read all reviews

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