2015 · drama · music · political
As I Open My Eyes
Directed by Leyla Bouzid1h 38m2015
Tunis, summer 2010, a few months before the Revolution: Farah, 18 years old, has just graduated and her family already sees her as a future doctor. But she doesn't have the same idea. She sings in a political rock band, has a passion for life, gets drunk, discovers love and her city by night against the wishes of her mother Hayet, who knows Tunisia and its dangers all too well.
Our read: As I Open My Eyes (2015) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded drama · music · political entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured drama / music, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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