A WRITTEN WOMEN
synopsis
Naïm, a renowned anthropologist, wants to make a film on beautiful Mririda, a Berber poet and courtesan who mesmerizes him. At the brothel where she used to go, Naïm is struck by the beauty, the sensuous tattoos of young prostitute Adjou. He immediately feels bound in his flesh and soul to Adjou, a kind of mirror image to Mririda. Adjou’s brutal murder triggers a police investigation. In his desperate search for truth, Naïm sways between a world of imagination and reality.
international title: | A Written Women |
original title: | Femme écrite |
country: | Morocco |
year: | 2011 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Lahcen Zinoun |
film run: | 87' |
screenplay: | Mohamed Soukri, Lahcen Zinoun |
cast: | Hatim Abdelghafour, Abdellatif Chaouki, Abdelkrim Cheddati, Sam Kanater, Fatym Layachi |
cinematography by: | Lilia Sellami |
film editing: | Julien Foure |
music: | Wolfgang Funk |
producer: | Lahcen Zinoun |
production: | Ait Z productions |
distributor: | Ait Z productions |