ARAB BLUES

by Manele Labidi (France-Tunisie, 2019, 1h28, vostf)

starring Golshifteh Farahani, Majd Mastoura, Aïcha Ben Miled, Hichem Yacoubi

After working in France for ten years, 35-year-old Selma opens her psychoanalysis practice in a working-class suburb of Tunis. In the aftermath of the Revolution, demand turns out to be high in this schizophrenic country. Just as Selma is beginning to make her mark, she discovers that she needs a licence which is essential if she is to continue practising...