{"id":330544,"date":"2021-08-26T10:30:22","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T07:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-feathers-review-a-bone-dry-bitingly-absurdist-debut\/"},"modified":"2021-08-26T10:30:22","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T07:30:22","slug":"watch-feathers-review-a-bone-dry-bitingly-absurdist-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-feathers-review-a-bone-dry-bitingly-absurdist-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Feathers&#8217; Review: A Bone-Dry, Bitingly Absurdist Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3d81fb87c7c\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3d81fb87c7c\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-feathers-review-a-bone-dry-bitingly-absurdist-debut\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Feathers_Review_A_Bone-Dry_Bitingly_Absurdist_Debut%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Feathers&#8217; Review: A Bone-Dry, Bitingly Absurdist Debut&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-feathers-review-a-bone-dry-bitingly-absurdist-debut\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Feathers_Review_A_Bone-Dry_Bitingly_Absurdist_Debut%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Feathers&#8217; Review: A Bone-Dry, Bitingly Absurdist Debut&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-feathers-review-a-bone-dry-bitingly-absurdist-debut\/#optional_screen_reader\" >optional screen reader<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-feathers-review-a-bone-dry-bitingly-absurdist-debut\/#Read_More_About\" >Read More About:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Feathers_Review_A_Bone-Dry_Bitingly_Absurdist_Debut%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Feathers&#8217; Review: A Bone-Dry, Bitingly Absurdist Debut&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Feathers_Review_A_Bone-Dry_Bitingly_Absurdist_Debut%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Feathers&#8217; Review: A Bone-Dry, Bitingly Absurdist Debut&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        It speaks volumes that we get to know the woman\u2019s back, hunched over dishes or laundry, against cracked tiles rimmed in dirty grout, before we get a proper look at her careworn face. And even then, the eyes of this Egyptian housewife (a superbly self-contained Demyana Nassar), the mother of two grimy, wriggling little boys, remain downcast as her husband (Samy Bassiouny) barks a grocery order and carefully metes out dirty banknotes from a meager supply. It seems, briefly, as though Omar El Zohairy\u2019s Cannes Critics\u2019 Week winner \u201cFeathers\u201d will continue in this vein, as a beautifully framed, sharply observed, quiet depiction of <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> inequity, squalor and the subjugation of women in an Egyptian factory town. But that\u2019s before the husband turns into a chicken.<\/p>\n<p>Strangeness runs through El Zohairy\u2019s tremendously impressive and complete feature debut like an electrical current, but it is treated with absolute, stonefaced straightforwardness, like a really black-hearted Aki Kaurismaki or a slightly more lighthearted Adilkhan Yerzhanov. The tonal mix is possible because of the gently over-keyed reality he has already established: As specific as the family\u2019s dingy apartment is, it is also a dystopian anywheresville. The location\u2019s exposed pipelines, crumbling buildings and arid scrub are played for wry visual humor in the wide shots of Kamal Samy\u2019s reserved, casually gorgeous camerawork and set the perfect stage on which to play out this compellingly absurdist, increasingly dark narrative of slow-acting liberation.<\/p>\n<p>The inexplicable transmogrification of foul human into human fowl h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ens at a fourth birthday party, when the husband \u2014 a much fonder father than he is a spouse \u2014 climbs into a box as part of a trick performed by the dodgy magician he\u2019s hired. The magician then pulls from the box a fluffy white chicken (a resplendent creature who will get progressively less so as the film goes on), to the applause of the attendees, but then finds that he cannot get the man back. What actually happened is revealed later on \u2014 though never logically explained \u2014 in a bold swift turn to the dark side that makes sense of the film\u2019s punchy and disturbing prologue.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, the wife (who is never named) must cope with the sudden absence of the family breadwinner, as well as taking a crash course in chicken care and dutifully doing all she can to reverse whatever spell he\u2019s under, despite the slow-dawning realization that her lot, if not that of her sons, may in fact be significantly improved by this unexpected turn of events. Hope, as Emily Dickinson might write were she reviewing this defiantly oddball, subversively feminist film, is a thing with feathers.<\/p>\n<p>Money is the most acute of her problems especially as her husband\u2019s landlord-boss refuses to give her his back pay, or to allow her to work in his stead. With several months\u2019 rent past due, and a lot of quackish witch doctors, spellcasters and vets to pay, not to mention her sons\u2019 hungry mouths \u2014 and her newly enchickened husband\u2019s beak \u2014 to feed, the woman at first subsists on charity from friends and relatives. But soon darker agendas are revealed, especially in one of her benefactors who wants more than a little quid pro quo. Finding work is not easy, and she goes through a couple of jobs before landing a relatively stable position \u2014 in one such, El Zohairy\u2019s mordantly scathing view of the stratification of Egyptian society manifests eloquently when she is caught stealing from the rich lady whose house she\u2019s cleaning. Her package of purloined goods \u2014 some off-cut bits of meat, a half-full pot of jam \u2014 is pitiful, but elicits no mercy.<\/p>\n<p>Fizzy little touches abound like cheap tinsel decorations tacked up for a party: a soundtrack featuring both \u201cPopcorn\u201d and a hilariously inappropriate, tinny muzak cover of the theme from \u201cLove Story\u201d; an unusual fondness for downtrodden-looking animals \u2014 chickens, of course, but also cows, donkeys and a rather aggressive circus monkey \u2014 wandering about in the background. And if the pacing lags a fraction in the later stretches, Samy\u2019s wonderful, textural photography keeps us rapt, his offbeat framing making as much of rusting window bars and money turned brown and suede-like with age as it does of grandly dismal, scuffed rooms and dramatically dust-blown exteriors.<\/p>\n<p>Men are, of course, faintly damned by the brusque way they either brush the woman off or attempt to take charge, yet still the taciturn screenplay, co-written by El Zohairy and Ahmed Amer, never overplays the screw-the-patriarchy angle. Instead, as the film moves to its wickedly darkhearted, guiltily satisfying conclusion, the woman\u2019s demeanor changes so microscopically you could almost miss it. It\u2019s just that suddenly, she looks less like she\u2019s trying to erase herself from every scene and to remove herself from every room (Nassar\u2019s ability to command the screen while always seeming to shy away from it, is uncanny). It makes \u201cFeathers\u201d less a tale of revenge than of dawning self-worth, however dubiously founded, as well as a radical reinterpretation of the meaning and inference of the term \u201chen-pecked.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-tags \/\/ a-children-icon-bullet lrv-u-font-family-primary u-letter-spacing-012 lrv-u-line-height-large lrv-u-color-brand-primary\">\n<h2 id=\"optional-screen-reader\" class=\"lrv-a-screen-reader-only\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"optional_screen_reader\"><\/span>\n        optional screen reader  <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<nav class=\"o-nav  o-nav lrv-u-border-b-1 u-border-color-brand-secondary-40 lrv-u-border-t-1 lrv-u-text-align-center lrv-u-padding-b-025 u-padding-t-050@desktop u-padding-t-050@tablet u-padding-t-050@mobile-max lrv-u-margin-t-2 lrv-u-margin-b-2\" data-dropdown=\"\">\n<h4 id=\"\" class=\"o-nav__title lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-font-family-secondary o-nav__title a-content-ignore u-line-height-140 u-letter-spacing-0002\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Read_More_About\"><\/span>Read More About:<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/nav>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n  !function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    if (f.fbq) return;\n    n = f.fbq = function() {\n      n.callMethod ?\n          n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n    };\n    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n    n.push = n;\n    n.loaded = !0;\n    n.version = '2.0';\n    n.queue = [];\n    t = b.createElement(e);\n    t.async = !0;\n    t.src = v;\n    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n  }(window, document, 'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '586935388485447');\n  fbq('init', '315552255725686');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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