2020 · comedy · drama
Arab Blues
Directed by Manele Labidi1h 28m2020
Selma, a psychoanalyst, deals with a cast of colorful new patients after returning home to Tunisia to open a practice.
Our read: Arab Blues (2020) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- gentle
- intimate
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