JPL Movie "The Wedding Song'

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Film presentation of "The Wedding Song" (in French and Arabic with English subtitles). Following the film, a talk and debate on the Jews of Maghreb will be led by Mireille Galanti, MA Art History, Université de Montréal.
Admission: $7 JPL members/students and $12 non-members. To reserve, call (514) 345-6416. For more information call (514) 345-2627 ext. 3017 or visit www.jewishpubliclibrary.org.
Set in Tunis during the Nazi regime, two young best friends, Myriam, a Sephardic Jew, and Nour, an Arab, find their nurturing intimacy giving way to the diverse dynamics of their impending marriages. Framed in a wartime context, Nour welcomes her nuptials to her handsome cousin, while Myriam dreads her own arranged union with a wealthy doctor. Like her first film Little Jerusalem, director Karin Albou explores her subject from a feminine perspective, magnificently portraying the female body as a contested battleground, an object of male domination and as physical intimacy between women. This is a film of rare unequalled beauty.
In collaboration with Alliance Israélite Universelle, as part of the festivities on the occasion of its 150th anniversary.