It’s the critically adored film that also happens to be the first feature filmed entirely in Saudi Arabia, and due to a last-minute mistake, it got left out of the print edition of our film calendar. Nevertheless, Wadjda opens tonight at the Harvard Exit, and according to Gillian Anderson and a million other critics, you should go see it.
Wadjda is a 10-year-old Saudi Arabian girl who doesn’t quite fit in: She listens to pop music, wears high-top Converse, has a friend who’s a boy, and really wants a bicycle. Her all-girls school teaches proper moral behavior for women, and she gets in trouble for her entrepreneurial endeavors and uncommon ideas. At home, her father is being pressured to take another wife in order to have a son. Writer-director Haifaa al-Mansour’s debut is the first feature filmed entirely in Saudi Arabia, and it’s a remarkable look inside an intensely religious and closed society.(GILLIAN ANDERSON)
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