Sisters in Arms
- heavy
- brisk
- intense
Heavy, kinetic, extreme action / war, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Kenza and Yaël are two young French women who go to Syria to fight alongside the Kurdish forces. There they meet Zara, a Yezidi survivor. Born in different cultures but deeply united, the women-fighters heal their past wounds and discover their present strength, especially the fear they inspire in their opponents. The three young women soon bound together and become true sisters-in-arms.
Our read · Sisters in Arms (2019) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded action · war · adventure entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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