Salon Huda

Certain therapies aim to kill healthy cells as well as the malicious, and in the same manner societies treat their own citizens to horrors while attempting to achieve some good.

Reem, a newlywed with a baby girl, visits her favorite salon where her coffee is spiked and she is blackmailed into providing information on her neighbors for Israel. Soon thereafter, before Reem can decide what to do, her handler is captured by Palestinians. Reem is out of the frying pan and into the fire.

Huda's Salon is the true story of people trying to survive in the walled city of Bethlehem, on the West Bank. Women are especially vulnerable in this society poisoned by betrayal and violence since at least 1967. Who to trust comes down to who people fear the most. The film is enthralling for the truths it reveals about a community that represses itself and where people are compromised in multiple ways. While the acting is not top tier, it is believable. From the director of Paradise Now.

This is completely misleading and terrible This is the worst movie I've seen in a long time Terrible acting and no need for nudity to display the life in the jewish sector.

At first the movie seems like a classic tale of women in a town, gossiping and hanging out. Very quickly this movie takes its dark turn and has us all wondering: "what is the truth". The main character is caught between a rock and hard place, and with seemingly no way out takes us along on a journey through the day after the world ended. This movie plainly is a haunting tale of collateral damage.

Our protagonist Reem is powerful, she is a representation of a strong Palestinian mother, who is striped of her options, and her ability to provide safety for her family. There are some amazing murals and shots throughout the film that aid this idea of her being genuine and powerful. As the movie goes on Reem does EVERYTHING she can for the sake of her daughter without even a thought for herself.

While watching this movie we all must ask: "can liars ever believe someone else can be telling the truth"? The truth is such a provocative and fragile thing.

Good Actors and Writers and Story, I don't know if it reality story.

If the story tells the reality, it is considered as raising awareness and caution.

The beginning promised an intense story inspired by true events, but 10 or 15 minutes into the movie that quickly faded away.

As an Arabic speaker; the dialogue reminded me of 6th or 7th grade writing classes with a wooden language that is full of naïve and overused expressions. The weakness in the dialogue\acting especially flourishes when the interrogation scenes between Huda and the very fashionable Palestinian resistance member start.

Not to mention that this film is supposedly shedding a light on a just cause like the daily struggles of Palestinian under occupation so having the nude scenes felt a little unnecessary in this setting. And was rather used to prove that Arab cinema can be "Progressive" too!