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Girls of the Sun

Les filles du soleil (Girls of the Sun)

2018

Eva Husson

Golshifteh Farahani, Emmanuelle Bercot, Erol Afsin, Arabi Ghibeh ...

5.3

49

Drama Written by the director herself, the story begins somewhere in Kurdistan. Bahar (Farahani), the commanding officer of the Daughters of the Sun, a battalion made up entirely of Kurdish female soldiers, is on the cusp of taking back control of the city where she was captured by extremists just a few months prior. French journalist Mathilde (Bercot) is covering the first three days of the offensive. When the two women meet, all of Bahar’s ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Jay Weissberg Variety	"A pedantically commonplace drama (...) [It is a] well-intentioned yet cliché-riddled lunge at the tear ducts (...) The script is the film’s biggest liability"	NEG
United States	Jordan Mintzer The Hollywood Reporter	"[It] is at once mildly harrowing and completely over-the-top, intermittently intense yet so unsubtle it winds up doing damage to its own worthy discourse."	NEU
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Impassioned, suspenseful, angry (...) 'Girls of the Sun' is partisan and it wears its heart on its sleeve: a powerful, forceful story (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Lee Marshall Screendaily	"A mid-budget mis-fire (...) [Husson] seems more concerned with staging sisterly bonding sessions amidst the rubble than in developing what might have been an intriguing story"	NEG
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"[It] has better suspense than story (...) While it’s less than the sum of its parts, those parts know how to deliver"	NEU
United States	Sharon Waxman The Wrap	"The film brings to vivid life the stories we have all read but found so hard to imagine (...) The emotion is honestly won."	POS
United States	Barbara Scharres rogerebert.com	"A well-meaning timid tribute (...) glorifying its brave subjects without taking any risks (...) 'Girls of the Sun' is choppy in its construction, sanitized in its imagery"	NEU

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