{"id":9344,"date":"2022-07-15T08:48:14","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T06:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/?p=9344"},"modified":"2022-12-25T11:22:45","modified_gmt":"2022-12-25T09:22:45","slug":"tunisians-on-the-couch-in-arab-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/tunisians-on-the-couch-in-arab-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisians On the Couch in &#8220;Arab Blues&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9345\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9345\" style=\"width: 1400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9345\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/un-divan-a-tunis-banniere-the-markaz-review.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"788\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/un-divan-a-tunis-banniere-the-markaz-review.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/un-divan-a-tunis-banniere-the-markaz-review-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/un-divan-a-tunis-banniere-the-markaz-review-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/un-divan-a-tunis-banniere-the-markaz-review-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/un-divan-a-tunis-banniere-the-markaz-review-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/un-divan-a-tunis-banniere-the-markaz-review-1320x743.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9345\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Arab Blues<\/em> or <em>Un divan \u00e0 Tunis<\/em> starring Golshifteh Farahani is available on VOD.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Arab Blues<\/em> (<em>Un divan \u00e0 Tunis<\/em>) 2019<br \/>\ncomedy, drama, French and Arabic, with English subtitles<br \/>\nDirected by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm9957570\/?ref_=tt_ov_dr\">Manele Labidi<\/a><br \/>\nRunning time 1 hour 28 minutes<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Mischa Geracoulis<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In <em>Arab Blues<\/em>, nearly ten years have passed since the self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi that fueled Tunisia\u2019s Jasmine Revolution, and deposed the country\u2019s longtime dictator, Ben Ali.\u00a0 While life in the burgeoning democratic Tunisia is still fragile, Selma, a Tunisian-born French citizen, is returning to Tunis at long last. Suspicious of her solo return to Tunis, her uncle, aunt, and cousins wonder if Selma is on drugs, on the run, a Mossad agent, or maybe pregnant. And, why, they grill her, isn\u2019t she married yet? Why does she \u201cdress like a guy,\u201d have piercings, tattoos, and unruly hair?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Scenes of the city depict crowds, confusion, graffitied buildings with revolutionary slogans and the rather ubiquitous <em>Tunisie libre<\/em> (\u201cfree Tunisia\u201d). Selma\u2019s family can\u2019t fathom her trading Paris for Tunis, the very place that they wanted to leave. Looking every bit the Parisian intellectual, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0267042\/\">Golshifteh Farahani<\/a> plays the self-possessed and serious Selma, who, much to her family\u2019s disapproval, is intent on opening a psychoanalysis practice in Tunis. Against the family\u2019s objections, she moves herself into their apartment complex, and sets up shop in the rooftop flat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Arab Blues trailer\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lzfd9Ldt24A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Selma insists that people in Tunis need to talk. \u201cWe have God\u2026we don\u2019t need this bullshit!\u201d rants her uncle. In Paris, rationalizes Selma, there were two other psychoanalysts in her building, and another ten on the same block. Thus, Tunis is where she can be of more service. There are obstacles though, and among them is the need to secure a medical license and business permit for her new practice. Selma\u2019s mostly ineffectual journey within the bureaucracy of the Ministry of Health is both frustrating and funny. When she asks a secretary there if her application is in order, the response is a heavenward glance, punctuated by \u201cinshallah.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Selma goes to the hair salon to offer psychoanalysis to the women there. As she describes a journey to oneself, through an inner door that opens to happiness and peace, she\u2019s met with sarcasm and blank stares. But when she adds that she can be flexible with payments, suddenly everyone wants her business card. Despite an initial show of disdain and distrust, patients line up to see her, and the practice takes off. Selma\u2019s treatment room displays an array of diplomas, and a picture of Freud in a fez whom few recognize. She imposes strict rules of conduct and boundaries, and insists on usage of the formal <em>vous,<\/em> altogether earning her a reputation as a \u201cpost-colonial snob.\u201d And yet the patients keep coming back.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After the police learn that Selma is practicing without a license, which almost lands her in jail if not for her uncle\u2019s bail payment, her uncle orders her to go back to Paris! Daily calls from her father in Paris beg her to come home. Instead, Selma pleads her case anew to the secretary at the Ministry of Health, who, unmoved, flatly implores God\u2019s protection unto Selma.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udc94<\/p>\n<p>What the piece doesn\u2019t mention I think is that half of Tunisians have considered leaving their country as per latest Arab Barometer survey from a few days ago. 41% would consider leaving as undocumented migrants.<\/p>\n<p>Here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AA3LmbRRZQ\">https:\/\/t.co\/AA3LmbRRZQ<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EXGiGf1qvQ\">https:\/\/t.co\/EXGiGf1qvQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Farah Abdessamad (@farahstlouis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/farahstlouis\/status\/1545522548456263691?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 8, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Tunisians in the film are fraught with post-revolutionary disillusionment, suffering from joblessness and socioeconomic struggles, loneliness, addictions, PTSD and paranoia, interpersonal discord, and internal angst. Their dramas and traumas are revealed by quirky, unexpected twists, such as when one male patient drops his pants. Misunderstanding Selma\u2019s services, his defense is that he\u2019d heard about \u201cthe French woman with a sofa.\u201d To this point, the English film title, <em>Arab Blues<\/em>, is not nearly as fitting as the literal translation from French \u2014 \u201ca sofa in Tunis.\u201d One patient muses that the horizonal position offered by the sofa lends to the psyche\u2019s desire to open up. And another male patient takes comfort in confessing his sexual dreams about dictators: Al-Assad, Mohammed VI, Saddam Hussein, and the name now on everyone\u2019s lips, Putin. But, he says, \u201cIf I dream about that bastard Bush, I\u2019ll throw myself out of a window!\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As much as the film\u2019s characters moan about feeling stuck, scared, or wanting to leave Tunisia, Selma digs in and wants to stay. A cousin alludes to Selma\u2019s father\u2019s exile from Tunisia and her mother\u2019s heartbreak, and when the stoic Selma eventually has an emotional meltdown, it\u2019s plausible that Golshifteh Farahani\u2019s onscreen sobs come from personal grief associated with her banishment from Iran. In 2012, Farahani appeared in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oFJ9IChKF90\">short, French film<\/a> in which each actor involved makes a statement (<em>corps et<\/em>\u00a0<em>\u00e2mes<\/em>) about their art by removing a piece of clothing of their choice. For her bit, Farahani discreetly flashes a breast. Since then, death threats from the Islamic Republic have rendered safe return to Iran impossible.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For Farahani, France is now home. From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2012\/sep\/06\/golshifteh-farahani-exile-iran-like-death\">an article in The Guardian<\/a> in 2012 by Fiachra Gibbons, the actress is quoted as saying, &#8220;For the first time in my life I appreciated being a woman. Paris is a city that liberates you as a woman from all your sins that you think you are guilty of, it washes away all of that, and you are free.&#8221; Farahani\u2019s Selma conveys that sense of personal liberation; she is unapologetic and beholden to no one, for which other female characters in the film are envious.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Just as the next phase of Tunisia is unclear, so too is the film\u2019s outcome. While <em>Arab Blues<\/em> doesn\u2019t pretend to answer the questions that necessarily spring from a country still in transition, it doesn\u2019t evade them either.\u00a0 The multilayered, multicultural storyline is thoughtful and engaging, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt9648886\/soundtrack\/\">the soundtrack<\/a> that includes Italian music from the 1960s adds a perfect touch to the not-quite-Tunisian, not-quite-French, but decidedly Mediterranean vibe.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mischa Geracoulis reviews the film in which a Paris-trained shrink analyzes fellow Tunisians suffering from mental 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