Barakat!

To understand the context in which Djamila Sahraoui's "Barakat!" (sometimes called "Enough" in English) takes place, you have to remember Algeria's history. A colony of France for over a century, it waged an eight-year war for independence - during which France tortured Algerian prisoners - before finally winning sovereignty. The party that rose to power after Algeria won independence was in power for the next thirty years. When a different party won the 1991 elections, the government simply cancelled the election results, causing a civil war.

So that's the context of this movie, wherein a doctor comes home to find her husband missing. She gets no help from the authorities, so she and a friend go and search for him. I don't know if I would call it a masterpiece, but I liked the focus on the relationship between these women (and I assume that Algeria has historically been a patriarchal society).

Worth seeing.

I really enjoyed the film where it exposes the reality of the 2 women, their search and the conflict and friendship between them!

I found it interesting when the older one talk about her past experince of Algerian libération war!!

We need more of these films who show people reality.

I really enjoyed watching this movie, it has a slow pace where the director films intensively the expression of the characters making you feel that you can read their minds. The landscape and characters are both splendid, "majestueux" (which I would translate as "elegant with a touch of grace" in English). It was also a nice insight of the problems in Algeria, many still present from the cicatrice of the French colonisation. As a French, I was really interested to have the view from their part. As many times the History we learn at school does not deserve the uppercase 'H' because it is often biased. * warning, occidental point of view here: * And most of all, this film present the fight of women in a country where their place is not comparable to the men's one.