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The Swallows of Kabul 2019 1h 20m Drama Animation List 89% Tomatometer 18 Reviews 84% Audience Score Fewer than 50 Ratings The story of two different couples living in Taliban-occupied Kabul.
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May 16, 2019 · Film Review: ‘The Swallows of Kabul’. Two female directors co-sign this involving adaptation of Yasmina Khadra’s elegant literary fiction about life under Taliban control in the Afghan capital....
Swallows, set during the Taliban's five year regime, grapples with the ability to live meaningfully when self-expression is never without fear. Full Review | May 24, 2019
May 16, 2019 · In Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, in the late 1990s, the reign of the Taliban has plunged local society into obscurantism, under the iron rule of the Sharia and its armed zealots.
The Swallows of Kabul (French: Les hirondelles de Kaboul) is a 2019 internationally co-produced adult animated psychological drama film directed by Zabou Breitman and Eléa Gobé Mévellec. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. The film is an adaption of the novel of the same name by Yasmina Khadra.
May 16, 2019 · Set in a Kabul struggling under oppressive Taliban rule, The Swallows of Kabul paints a nuanced, balanced vision of a conflict that is too often treated in over-simplified, hysteric terms. The Taliban are not simply portrayed as heinous, mindless villains; their agenda is contextualized within the wider sphere of global geo-politics.
May 16, 2019 · The narrative examines the lives of Mosheen and his beautiful wife, Zunaira, which are destroyed as the Taliban takes over. Mosheen's dream of becoming a diplomat has been shattered and Zunaira can no longer even appear on the streets of Kabul unveiled.
