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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0795975103930
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Zeitgeist Films
Manufacturer: Zeitgeist Films
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Zeitgeist Films
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 27, 2003
Running Time: 95 minutes
Sales Rank: 51544
Studio: Zeitgeist Films
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
Editorial Review:
Description:
A Tunisian widow takes an unlikely journey of self-discovery in Raja Amari's sumptuous and sensual SATIN ROUGE. While investigating a suspected liaison between her headstrong teenaged daughter and a cabaret musician, Lilia becomes drawn to an exhilarating nightclub netherworld of Rubenesque belly dancers and nocturnal pleasure-seekers. In trading her shapeless housedresses for sequins and satin, she begins to emerge from her cocoon of melancholy and loneliness. Writer-director Amari's tale of liberation recalls Douglas Sirk's 1950s suburban melodramas as it also paints a distinctly modern portrait of Arab women.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Great Belly Dance drama
I loved the reality of this story. Most of us who belly dance can relate to being an average Jane during the day and a Belly Dancing goddess at night. It has a few unexpected twists and hypnotic dance scenes at the casbah. With real life situations and cultural taboo being a big part of the story it remained intriguing until the very end.
Rating: - Releasing Her Hidden Flame - Igniting Her Inner Passions
Lilia is an attractive widow, apparently in her early 40s who lives an upstanding conservative lifestyle in a city of Tunisia. She is a seamstress who also does knitting on the side to keep herself occupied. Her husband has been gone for many years and her lack of companionship and boredom is evident. When cleaning her apartment, she plays Arabic music and dances sensuosly while watching herself in the mirror. It is clear she is ripe for some adventure ...
She is raising a teenage daughter, ... Read More
Rating:  - So this is why belly dancers are sometimes called "The Flowers of the Desert"
This movie started off somewhat languidly, and lulls you into a sleepy mood but then picks up towards the middle. This Tunisian movie portrays the woman as liberated from the traditions, religion, and social conformism, as opposed to women in some other Arabic/Muslim countries. People might think this country is located in the Middle East but is in North Africa.
What makes "Satin Rouge" an adorable film is that Director Amari uses the belly-dancing element to explore the prevailing social values ... Read More
Rating: - Come to the Cabaret !
Lilia (Hiam Abbass) is a lonely bored widow living within the confines of the social order in Tunisia. She lives for her beautiful young daughter, Salma (Hend Al Fahem): coddling her, doing for her, worrying about her and basically smothering her. As most young girls everywhere do...Salma rebels and begins to date and bed a cabaret/belly dancing musician, Chokri (Maher Kahoun). Lilia finds out, follows Chokri to the cabaret and basically finds herself: she befriends a wild Tunisian belly dancer, learns to dance, ... Read More
Rating: - Cabaret Nights ~ A Microcosm Of Life
Note: Arabic with English subtitles.
This is a great women's empowerment film, but you don't have to be female to enjoy it. Lilia (Hiam Abbassa) is a widowed, middle-aged woman living the life a unexciting reclusive lifestyle as a seamstress. Her only child, a daughter, is a college student who has a life of her own and has only marginal contact with her Mother.
Her life appears to be going nowhere until she happens to meet a bellydancer while shopping at a local cloth store. She is hired ... Read More
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