Last spring, Kaouther Ben Hania presented her pitch-black Beauty and the Dogs at Cannes. A young woman is violently raped on the street by a group of policemen.
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She gets up all her courage to report the crime, but faces disbelief and opposition, and ultimately she finds herself in the police station where the perpetrators work.
This ever-tenser and more upsetting, combative film is a nightmare based on a true story. It is not a faultless film, but it presses its finger into a festering wound.
> Beauty and the Dogs. TN, FR, 2014, dir.: Kaouther Ben Hania, act.: Mariam Al Ferjani, Ghanem Zrelli
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