Four Daughters (2023)
- heavy
- measured
- intense
- inventive
- bleak
Heavy, measured, measured documentary, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Between light and darkness stands Olfa, a Tunisian woman and the mother of four daughters. One day, her two older daughters disappear. To fill in their absence, the filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania invites professional actresses and invents a unique cinema experience that will lift the veil on Olfa and her daughters' life stories. An intimate journey of hope, rebellion, violence, transmission and sisterhood that will question the very foundations of our societies.
Our read · Four Daughters (2023) (2023) reads as a heavy, measured, inventive documentary entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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