Amreeka

"Amerrika" : les Etats-Unis d'Amérique, terre promise aux promesses non tenues Gagner à la loterie n'apporte pas un bonheur sans mélange, surtout quand le gros lot est un titre de séjour aux Etats-Unis d'Amérique. Mouna, l'héroïne d'Amerrika, premier long métrage d'une jeune cinéaste américaine d'origine jordanienne, est donc une femme chanceuse, qui arrive sur la terre promise par la grande porte, [...] Vai alla recensione »

Even for a small film of surpassing quality, "Amreeka" has gotten a surprising amount of recognition. It was a success at Sundance, the opening night of New York's prestigious New Directors/New Films series and took home the coveted FIPRESCI critics prize at the Directors' Fortnight in Cannes. That notice is unexpected because at its heart this debut feature by writer-director Cherien Dabis has the [...] Vai alla recensione »

Cherien Dabis’s “Amreeka” (the Arabic word for America) stands alongside “The Visitor" and “Maria Full of Grace” as one of the most accomplished recent films about a non-European immigrant coming to the United States. While the arrivals in the other two movies were not legal immigrants, the indomitably good-natured protagonist of “Amreeka,” Muna Farah ( Nisreen Faour ), is a divorced non-Muslim Palestinian [...] Vai alla recensione »