The Wedding SongFollowing the international success of her prize-winning feature debut, Little Jerusalem, director Karin Albou returns with a remarkable film that maps a place where Jewish and Arab culture and religion meet.
Set in 1942 Nazi-occupied Tunis, The Wedding Song is about two inseparable teenage friends, Jewish Myriam and Muslim Nour, who are determined to maintain their lifelong bond.
Although each is far more interested in romance than in war, the Nazi occupation encroaches on their wedding preparations in unexpected ways. To save herself and her daughter from deportation, Myriam's impoverished mother marries her off to a wealthy, older doctor. Meanwhile, Nour is happily betrothed to her handsome cousin, but her wedding is postponed until he can find a job.
Albou decorates this unfolding drama with many intimate and suggestive details, in scenes that take the viewer inside the women's hammam to the preparation for an "Oriental-style" wedding. The result is a genuinely groundbreaking film.
