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Girls of the Sun is the sort of film that raises a number of questions both about the nature of feminist cinema and our expectations of it. Eva Husson’s sophomore film focuses on a military unit of battle-hardened Kurdish women who seek retribution and freedom for Kurdistan against Islamic extremists. The women are ex-captives and mostly ...
May 12, 2018 · From this gloomy foreshadowing, the story shifts to Mathilde (Emmanuelle Bercot), a veteran war reporter with an eyepatch that proves she’s done her fair share of work on the frontlines.
Apr 11, 2019 · “Girls of the Sun,” Eva Husson’s ripped-from-real-life drama about a battalion of Kurdish women fighting the Islamic State in northern Iraq, begins and ends in the swirling dust of the same...
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Apr 19, 2019 · April 19, 2019, 10:51am. When it comes to media portrayals of the soldiers fighting ISIS, rarely are female soldiers included. But Girls of the Sun, a film released on April 12, follows a...
Sep 25, 2018 · The movie flattens the various political and ethnic groups, which has drawn a bit of criticism out of Canne), and Girls of the Sun combines a lot of the journalism and accounts to present a sort of coherent picture of one unit. It follows the audience “in,” French war correspondent Mathilde (Emmanuelle Bercot) as she is embedded in a unit made up specifically of escaped or rescued Yazidi ...
May 14, 2018 · This band-of-sisters frontline war drama from French filmmaker Eva Husson (‘Bang Gang: A Modern Love Story’) honours the cause and bravery of female Kurds from the Yazidi people in northern ...
May 13, 2018 · Led by their fearless leader, Bahar (Golshifteh Farahani), the women are at war with the extremists who have captured Bahar’s hometown of Corduene, a bloody conflict that French journalist...
