{"id":609802,"date":"2024-02-22T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-meryam-joobeurs-handsome-debut-feature\/"},"modified":"2024-02-22T18:15:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T15:15:00","slug":"watch-meryam-joobeurs-handsome-debut-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-meryam-joobeurs-handsome-debut-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Meryam Joobeur&#8217;s Handsome Debut Feature"},"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-6a3405993fb7f\" 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-6a3405993fb7f\" 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-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-meryam-joobeurs-handsome-debut-feature\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Meryam_Joobeurs_Handsome_Debut_Feature%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online Meryam Joobeur&#8217;s Handsome Debut Feature&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-meryam-joobeurs-handsome-debut-feature\/#%E2%80%9CMeryam_Joobeurs_Handsome_Debut_Feature%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Meryam Joobeur&#8217;s Handsome Debut Feature&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Meryam_Joobeurs_Handsome_Debut_Feature%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online Meryam Joobeur&#8217;s Handsome Debut Feature&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CMeryam_Joobeurs_Handsome_Debut_Feature%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Meryam Joobeur&#8217;s Handsome Debut Feature&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    A\u00efcha (Salha Nasraoui) and her husband Brahim (Mohamed Hassine Grayaa) live on a farm in northern Tunisia. It\u2019s a modern rural environment of goats, trucks, home cooking and tight-knit families. In Meryam Joobeur\u2018s feature-length debut \u201cWho Do I Belong To,\u201d an early sequence of A\u00efcha shaving Brahim\u2019s face \u2014 an act of intimacy and trust \u2014 introduces a key part of the director\u2019s aesthetic strategy: DP Vincent Gonneville\u2019s frequent use of extreme close-ups on the actors\u2019 faces. At times, the camera hovers so close that they almost stop looking like faces at all; there\u2019s a landscape quality to facial features observed from this kind of intense proximity. In the shaving scene, Grayaa\u2019s cheeks, lathered with shaving foam, call to mind mountains buried under drifts of snow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    You might expect from this introduction that Brahim, this monumental patriarch, will play a bigger part in the subsequently unfolding events, and it\u2019s true that when angered, he makes his presence felt. Similarly, when his missing son Mehdi (Malek Mechergui) returns from an ill-fated attempt to fight for ISIS in Syria, accompanied by a silent, pregnant wife in a niqab, it initially feels like Mehdi\u2019s story will dominate the narrative. But the film is more slippery and subtle than that. While the male characters might make more noise, Joobeur aims to prove the adage that still waters run deep, and it is the women who emerge as the soul of her film. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Dea Liane plays Reem, Mehdi\u2019s mysterious new wife, as a magnificent counterargument to anyone who might have thought it difficult to give an arresting performance with a mostly covered face and hardly any dialogue. Her eyes, framed for the majority of her screentime by her niqab, are extraordinary, telegraphing worlds of emotion, running the gamut from trauma and vulnerability to something more sinister. The intensity of her gaze would feel almost supernatural, even if this were not a film with magical realist aspects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    These elements are largely the realm of matriarch A\u00efcha \u2014 played by Nasraoui with moving stoicism \u2014 whose powerful subconscious threatens to spill over into the waking world. At times, it\u2019s hard to tell if we\u2019re in a dreamlike sequence that nevertheless reflects reality, or whether we\u2019re inhabiting A\u00efcha\u2019s actual dreams. It\u2019s a deliberately destabilizing strategy that has the effect of undermining our reliance on empirical truth in favour of something woozier and more intuitive. \u201cWho Do I Belong To\u201d is a film to be watched receptively, though this makes its scenes of violence harder to process when they occur. Joobeur demands that you let your guard down, then sucker-punches you for your troubles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    A particularly hard-to-watch sequence reveals how Reem and Mehdi actually met, as the young, pregnant woman is sentenced to be kicked to death by around a dozen ISIS soldiers, as a sinful unbeliever. The soldiers\u2019 grim sense that that their actions are righteous is an example of the thinking that has led to some of humanity\u2019s darkest moments, and underlines the sentiment, never far from the surface in this film, that the world is a tough place which heaps iniquity on the weak \u2014 and is hardly any more sustaining or enlightening for the strong. Despite this, there\u2019s a rough-hewn beauty to much of the earthy image-making, with Gonneville\u2019s distinctive camerawork matched by lighting and location teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    That Joobeur\u2019s debut has auspiciously secured her a spot in the Berlinale Competition should assist sales and distribution, though commercial prospects may be limited by the downbeat subject matter and lack of marquee names. The actors are a mixture of professionals and newcomers, and there\u2019s a notable backstory to the casting of the family\u2019s brothers Mehdi, Adam (Rayen Mechergui) and Amine (Chaker Mechergui). <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Malek and Chaker were originally cast in Joobeur\u2019s Oscar-nominated 2018 short \u201cBrotherhood\u201d about a year after she first photographed them in Tunisia, herding their father\u2019s sheep. She not only went back to find them when she came to make the short, but also remained faithful to her original casting impulse when expanding the short to feature length \u2014 with the film now folding their younger brother Rayen into the mix, further lending an authentic family dynamic to proceedings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\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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