Word: harems
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harem...
What is Tea in the Harem about? There isn't really a plot. There isn't much witty dialogue. You just watch two boys live. It's beautiful. And it makes you wonder why Americans need lots of flashy color, bitchy one-liners and stereotyped characters to make a movie, when Medhi Charef can make a film this powerful from a series of sensitive pictures and lifelike conversation...
...Harem paints a poignant picture of two boys, Pat and Madjid (Remi Martin and Kader Boukhanef), who commit aimless acts of delinquency, wandering through the streets of a French village with nothing to depend on except their friendship. Through this portrait, the film also addresses some essential questions in society, from racism to poverty to the meaning of life...
...Harem...
...parable of Imelda's shoes has something to teach. She could never wear them all. Nor could the Marcos family, one suspects, manage to spend the billions of dollars they plundered from the Philippines. As easily could Khedive Ismail labor through his harem of 3,000 women. (It is perhaps just as well that Ismail's champagne overdose spared him the exhaustion of trying to scale that particular Everest...