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“Erasure” and “Red Children”, two intimate and political cinematographic looks on Algeria and Tunisia

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Nizar (Yassine Samouni) and Achraf (Ali Helali), in “Les Enfants Rouge”, by Lotfi Achour. NOUR FILMS

The hazards of the indoor programming sometimes produce curious sparks. Thus from , May 7, which brings together the films of the Algerian Karim Moussaoui and the Tunisian Lotfi Achour. Erasure et Red have, a priori, nothing to do. The evokes, through a filial relationship located in the business community, the crushing of the wires by the generation of the fathers and the social ravages of the patriarchy. The second depicts a item that horrified , during which a group of men affiliated with the Islamic State organization beheaded, on November 13, 2015, a shepherd from the village of Slatnya, 16 years old and appointed Mabrouk Soltani. Eighteen months later, the same group reissued the same gesture on the person of his brother, Khalifa Soltani.

So nothing, and yet a lot to see. The intimism of the first is a clear metaphor for the unreason of a society where the heroic generation of the fathers of independence has not enabled the following generations to get out of this founding story. In reverse, the political frontality of the second, which evokes the barbarism of fundamentalism and terrorism, is considered from the intimate point of view of a 14 -year -old child, witness to the murder.

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