The Sleeping Child
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The Sleeping Child | |
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Directed by | Yasmine Kassari |
Written by | Yasmine Kassari |
Starring | Mounia Osfour Rachida Brakni Nermine Elhaggar Fatna Abdessamie Khamsa Abdessamie Issa Abdessamie Mimoun Abdessamie |
Release date |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
Country | Berber Moroccan Arabic |
The Sleeping Child (in
Centre national de la cinématographie
).
Plot
In Atlas Mountains, Zeinab (Mounia Osfour), realises she's pregnant when her husband migrates to Europe along with other men from the village. Her mother-in-law convinces her to sleep the foetus, in keeping with an old white magic tradition very spread in Maghribian rural world. According to Kassari, this plot-point serves as the "luminous point that sheds light on the situation of these women who have remained alone in the country, facing the absence of their men,"[1] which, as stated by Florence Martin, presents the viewer with "the womanly gaze on male emigration."[1]
References
External links
- The Sleeping Child at IMDb