{"id":15646,"date":"2024-01-12T19:40:59","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T19:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?p=15646"},"modified":"2025-06-11T23:39:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T23:39:27","slug":"a-tale-of-love-and-desire-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/a-tale-of-love-and-desire-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A TALE OF LOVE AND DESIRE"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A TALE OF LOVE AND DESIRE<\/span><\/h2>\n

| 2023 – 102′ – Drama, Romance, Coming of Age.
\n<\/span>Written by:\u00a0Leyla Bouzid.
\nDirected by:\u00a0Leyla Bouzid.
\nStarring:\u00a0Sami Outalbali,\u00a0Zbeida Belhajamor,\u00a0Diong-Keba Tacu, Aur\u00e9lia Petit, Mahia Zrouki, Bellamine Abdelmalek, Mathilde Lamusse.
\nOfficial selection Critic’s\u00a0Week Cannes 2021.
\nOfficial Competition<\/strong>\u00a0COLCOA 2021<\/b>.
\nIn French with English subtitles.
\nA Distrib Films US \/ Under the Milky Way release. |<\/span><\/p>\n

Leyla Bouzid\u2019s assured, introspective second feature is indeed brimming with both love and desire. This soft-spoken coming-of-age story tells the tale of Ahmed, a highly-conflicted French-Algerian student from the projects, and Farah, a free-spirited, sensual young woman from Tunisia. Enrolled in the same Arabic poetry class at the Sorbonne, the attraction between them is immediate. But Ahmed is torn \u2014 almost paralyzed \u2014 between his traditional ideal of a \u201cpure love\u201d and the eroticism that both Farah and Arabic poetry have awakened in him. As their literature professor says on the first day of class, \u201cDesire, desire, and yet more desire. Is that not what literature is all about?\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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