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Film Screening: Une histoire d’amour et de désir (A Tale of Love and Desire)
February 19 @ 7:00 pm
Sunday, February 19, 2023
7:00pm at UWM Union Cinema
Une histoire d’amour et de désir (A Tale of Love and Desire)
Leila Bouzid, MP4, 103 min
France, 2021 (French)
Critic’s Week – Closing Film, 2021 Cannes Festival
Wisconsin premiere
Ahmed, 18, French of Algerian origin, grew up in the suburbs of Paris. At university, he meets Farah, an energetic young Tunisian girl, who has just arrived in Paris. While discovering a corpus of erotic Arabic literature, the shy Ahmed falls in love with Farah, as he struggles to find himself.
Presented as part of the Albertine Cinémathèque program & Co-sponsored by MALLT