Game in woman It is unlikely that 11-year-old Frenchwoman Ami from the Senegalese diaspora, with her adherence to Muslim traditions, is ripe to be married in a few years. When her aunt and mother take Ami to a women’s religious gathering, where they are taught what qualities a woman should possess, and also inform Ami that she has already become a woman, for a girl with her fully playful consciousness, this news looks like a transition to a new level of play.
She'd better play classics or play ball again. But the new games at home boil down to slicing a basket of onions and wearing a huge dish on your head. Mom is crying because of her husband’s behavior – it’s not fun to play woman here. Whether it is adult dances pouring from the screen of a smartphone, this game of a woman will be more interesting. A group of peers is just preparing for the dance competition, and Ami is happy to join the new game, and even takes the preparation for the dances of the whole group into his own hands.
New friends Ami somehow gradually enter into this “adult” world and therefore understand that for some actions not only the mother will punish, but it is also too much for them. The comet bursts into its role of a woman, learned from a smartphone in a few days, and generally sees no boundaries either in dancing or in behavior in social networks.
Unnatural play blasts Ami from the inside with bouts of aggression and causes tension, taken by her aunt for possessing evil spirits. “You don’t have to go there,” the mother’s wise words at the end of the film allow Ami to step out of the game of womanhood in order to become what she should be.
Through Ami as tabula rasa, the filmmaker shows the essence of what Western culture considers a woman. The first wife as an outmoded thing and the half-naked dancer as a sexy thing - Muslim and Western culture are equal in their oppression of women, and I don't remember any other movie in which that thought sounds so loud and so loudly unheard.
7 out of 10
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