Candas explores burning social issue in Le Voile
Having attracted attention in competition at Locarno in 2006 with Suzanne [+see also:
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Acted by a mainly non-professional cast including Sonia Amaury and Stéphane Nahal, the film tackles the burning social issue of the Islamic veil. This theme interweaves the subjects of the future of suburban youth and artistic expression.
Adapted by the director from her 2004 novel Le Voile Brûlé (“The Burned Veil”), the film centres on an orphaned brother and sister who live together on a suburban housing estate. In their own separate ways, they follow their path in life.
The brother spends most of his time helping out his neighbours, while the sister has a passion for theatre. One lives cut off behind the walls of the social housing, the other escapes from this world by playing imaginary characters on stage.
That is until the day the brother refuses to let his sister continue her theatre lessons. Then they get locked in a painful fraternal struggle, from which neither will emerge unscathed.
Produced by Marseilles-based companies Neon Productions (who currently have Jean-Jacques Jauffret’s Après le Sud in post-production) and 13 Production (who successfully handled Béla Tarr’s The Man from London [+see also:
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(Translated from French)
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