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As I Open My Eyes (À peine j’ouvre les yeux) Kino Lorber Reviewed by: Harvey Karten, Shockya Grade: B Director: Leyla Bouzid Written by: Leyla Bouzid, Marie-Sophie Chambon Cast: Baya Medhaffer, Ghalia Benali, Montassar Ayari, Aymen Omrani, Lassaad Jamoussi Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 8/30/16 Opens: September 9, 2016 Rock stars make more money than doctors. People pay happily to see rock stars because they’re exciting, but they pay doctors, generally less entertaining, regretfully. And people collect autographs from rock stars, but not from doctors, whose signatures are unreadable anyway. So what does a protective mother want her rock-inclined daughter to be? A doctor, of course. “As I Open My [ Read More ]

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Adolescence is largely defined by conflict between the younger and older generations, providing reliable material for many coming-of-age stories in past, present, and the future. Leya Bouzid’s debut feature “As I Open My Eyes,” a musically charged French-Tunisian film that follows a young woman as she navigates familial, cultural, and social ideal in the build up to the 2010 Jasmine Revolution in Tunis. The 18-year-old Farah (Baya Medhaffar) has just graduated and her family already sees her as a future doctor, but Farah has other plans. She sings in a political rock band, drinks casually, and discovers love and life in the city at night against the will of her mother Hayet (Ghalia Benali), who knows the dangers of Tunisia too well. Watch an exclusive clip from the film below.

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