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Halfaouine

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Noura is in the throes of puberty, and it's making life difficult for him in his Tunisian town, where the lives of men and women are kept utterly separate. The boy finds himself accepted in neither world. He is not yet a man, and his interest in the female body has gotten him banned from the women's baths. Soon the sexually precocious 12-year-old is peeping on his female neighbor, salivating over his family's new servant and befriending local pariah Salih.
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Carol Cling Las Vegas Review-Journal 03/12/2004
4/5
James Berardinelli ReelViews 01/01/2000
2.5/4
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02/02/2013 A great coming of age story worth watching.. See more Read all reviews
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Férid Boughedir

Director

Selim Boughedir

Noura

Carolyn Chelby

Leila

Mohamed Driss

Salih

Helene Katzaras

Latifa

Anouche Setbon

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Synopsis Noura is in the throes of puberty, and it's making life difficult for him in his Tunisian town, where the lives of men and women are kept utterly separate. The boy finds himself accepted in neither world. He is not yet a man, and his interest in the female body has gotten him banned from the women's baths. Soon the sexually precocious 12-year-old is peeping on his female neighbor, salivating over his family's new servant and befriending local pariah Salih.
Director
Férid Boughedir
Producer
Ahmed Baha Attia, Sylvain Bursztejn, Eliane Stutterheim
Screenwriter
Férid Boughedir, Nouri Bouzid, Taoufik Jebali, Maryse León García
Distributor
International Film Circuit [us]
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Arabic
Release Date (Theaters)
Jun 22, 1990, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
Jul 15, 2008
Runtime
1h 38m
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