Review: The gripping ‘Four Daughters’ spotlights a shattered Tunisian Arab family
1 year, 1 month ago

Review: The gripping ‘Four Daughters’ spotlights a shattered Tunisian Arab family

LA Times  

In 2016, a Tunisian woman named Olfa Hamrouni went public with a personal story of loss, rage and despair: Her two elder daughters, teenagers Ghofrane and Rahma Chikhaoui, had recently fled home for Libya and joined Islamic State. On the evidence of “Four Daughters,” a formally daring, emotionally gripping new movie from the Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania, Hamrouni has lost none of her outspokenness seven years later. Tayssir Chikhaoui, left, and Eya Chikahoui in the movie “Four Daughters.” You have to applaud Hamrouni, in that moment and others, for literally bloodying the nose of the patriarchy. But by the end of “Four Daughters,” that formal dissonance hasn’t just largely evaporated; it’s taken on a new layer of political meaning.

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Four Daughters: The true story of the teenage sisters who joined IS
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Four Daughters: The true story of the teenage sisters who joined IS

BBC  

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Two daughters ran away to join Islamic State. Years later, their family’s story is an Oscar nominee
9 months, 4 weeks ago

Two daughters ran away to join Islamic State. Years later, their family’s story is an Oscar nominee

Associated Press  

Olfa Hamrouni doesn’t know much about her granddaughter; not her favorite toy nor food — is it the pasta the child’s mother loves, or something else? The child has spent virtually all her life with her mother and aunt — Hamrouni’s eldest daughters — raised in detention in Libya, where the women wound up after leaving home as teenagers and …

Two daughters ran away to join Islamic State, years later, their family’s story is an Oscar nominee
10 months ago

Two daughters ran away to join Islamic State, years later, their family’s story is an Oscar nominee

New Indian Express  

The film experiments with format. Besides Sabri, actors play Ghofrane and Rahma, the daughters who left, as Ben Hania reconstructs the family’s past in search for clues for their radicalization. In the film and the family’s telling, the daughters grew up with little in a tumultuous home. Then the changes that swept Tunisia following the Arab Spring pro-democracy movement more …

In ‘Four Daughters,’ a shattered Tunisian family braves obstacles in the eye of the camera
10 months, 1 week ago

In ‘Four Daughters,’ a shattered Tunisian family braves obstacles in the eye of the camera

LA Times  

What memory serves is often open to debate in “Four Daughters,” a meta-documentary from Tunisia that explores the lives of a shattered family whose two eldest teenage daughters ran away in 2015 to join the Islamic State in Libya. I wasn’t happy with what I filmed.” She moved onto a different project, the fictional drama “The Man Who Sold His …

"Four Daughters" seeks to understand radicalization by ISIS: "People can go to the side of darkness"
1 year, 1 month ago

"Four Daughters" seeks to understand radicalization by ISIS: "People can go to the side of darkness"

Salon  

Kaouther Ben Hania’s documentary, “Four Daughters” explores the trauma a Tunisian family experienced after Olfa Hamrouni’s eldest daughters, Rahma and Ghofrane, joined ISIS. The film uses actresses Nour Karoui and Ichrak Matar, respectively, to portray Rahma and Ghofrane, and Tunisian actress Hind Sabri plays Olfa, “when scenes are too upsetting.” Olfa’s youngest daughters, Eya and Tayssir, play themselves. The episodes …

Cannes 2023: 'Four Daughters' mixes documentary, fiction to portray Tunisian mother
1 year, 7 months ago

Cannes 2023: 'Four Daughters' mixes documentary, fiction to portray Tunisian mother

The Hindu  

Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania mixes fiction and documentary to capture the story of Olfa Hamrouni, whose older daughters left to fight for Islamic State in "Four Daughters," her first entry for the Cannes Film Festival's top prize. For the film, Ben Hania wanted to show Hamrouni's complexities but noticed she would fall into the well-trodden narrative of guilt-ridden mother …

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