The gripping 'Four Daughters' spotlights a shattered Tunisian Arab family

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A mother and her two youngest daughters recount the tragedy that tore their family apart in this emotionally stirring movie from Kaouther Ben Hania.

In 2016, a Tunisian woman named Olfa Hamrouni went public with a personal story of loss, rage and despair: Her two elder daughters, teenagers Ghofrane and Rahma Chikhaoui, had recently fled home for Libya and joined Islamic State. They were hardly alone among the thousands of radicalized young Tunisians who had pledged themselves to militant groups abroad.

That strikes a meaningful contrast sometime later when Hamrouni recounts her own postmarital affair with another man, a proud assertion of erotic desire that’s striking in and of itself. We hear about the women’s conflicted feelings about wearing hijabs and niqabs, garments that have generated much dispute across Tunisia, both before and after the 2011 Arab Spring.

 

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