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Daniel Blumensev reviews Haifaa Al-Mansour's Saudi Arabian film The Perfect Candidate starring Nora Al Awadh, Dae Al Hilali, Mila Al Zahrani, Khalid Abdulraheem, Shafi Alharthy, Tareq Al...
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The Perfect Candidate (2019) With the unpaved road to the clinic as her motivation, the accidental candidate bones up online on how to run a political campaign. Her wedding photographer sister Selma helps with adding pizzazz to her campaign video, which (as these things do in films) goes viral.
Aug 29, 2019 · The 2019 Venice Film Festival review of movie 'The Perfect Candidate,' in which a young female doctor dares to run for public office in Haifaa Al Mansour’s ('Wadjda') eye-opening view on...
Al-Mansour’s “The Perfect Candidate,” which tells the story of a twentysomething Muslim woman who campaigns to win a seat on her town’s municipal council, often feels like a lucid mirror image of the director’s 2012 breakthrough: it follows someone trying to sustain the essence of her identity in a country that’s aggressively coming ...
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Mar 26, 2020 · Heading onto video on demand – after its cinema release had to be called off – is The Perfect Candidate, and here’s our review. When watching The Perfect Candidate , you may find yourself struck with the uncanny sensation that you are watching something familiar, just in a very different setting.
As "The Perfect Candidate" (2019 release from Saudi Arabia; 101 min.) opens, we see a women driving her car to work. Turns out she is Dr. Maryam, working in the emergency room of a new hospital, with its access road not even paved and full of mud. Dr. Maryam then wants to attend a medical conference in Dubai, but her travel permit is about to ...
