In French and Arabic, with French subtitles in some sequences. Originally released as a motion picture in 2001. Based on the novel by Yamina Benguigui. Fejria Deliba, Zinedine Soualem, Marie-France Pisier, Amina Annabi, Mohamed Fellag, France Darry, Roger Dumas, Rabia Mokeddem, Mathilde Seigner, Jalil Lespert.
Summary:
Film about the "family reunion," the French government's euphemism for a 1974 law allowing Algerian wives to rejoin their husbands working in France. Strong-willed Zouina parts tearfully from her mother in the port of Algiers; once in France, she and her three small children are at the mercy of her mother-in-law and confused by the strange customs of their local grocer and garden-obsessed neighbor. The radio is her only window on life and on the women of this new country.
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