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.
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.