Arab Attraction
dir. Andreas Horvath, Monika Muskała, Austria, 2010, 110 mins
Screening times
May 7 19:00, Kinoteka 7
May 8 16:00, Muranów
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Synopsis

Barbara Wally has been known throughout Austria for her outspoken feminist views for decades. But a few years before retiring from the International Summer Academy for Fine Arts in Salzburg, her life took a drastic turn. During a 10-day vacation to Yemen, she fell in love with a chauffeur named Khadher and became his second wife. "In every conversation, it was imperative that I become Muslim", she explains. "He doesn't want me to end up in hell." So this atheist Austrian converts to Islam, prays five times a day, and says goodbye to her beloved bacon. Directing duo Andreas Horvath and Monika Muskala pay her a visit in both Salzburg and Yemen. The heavyset woman with long, dyed red hair is a striking presence in the latter country. Together with her husband, she runs a local travel agency called Adensafari. But while her spouse spends his days slumped in his chair chewing qat or drinking tea with male relatives, Barbara can barely leave the house - a highlight of her daily routine is a game of dominos. Arab Attraction is a remarkable portrait of a special woman who has drastically revised her point of view and now questions post-feminist Western society. Her switch to a subservient existence seems almost masochistic, or is Barbara just looking for peace and security in her new life?

Wybrane nagrody i festiwale /Selected festivals and awards: 2010 – MFF Amsterdam/IDFA

Makers

Zdjęcia/Cinematography by: Andreas Horvath, Monika Muskała
Producent/Produced by: Andreas Horvath

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Porażająca historia... Przerażający świat... Męski ten film jednak, opowiada o kobiecie, a pozostawia wrażenie, że ona w tym wszystkim jest mniej ważna, ważniejszy znowu jest mężczyzna i jego świat... Pozostaje niedosyt... (Juliasiewiczowa)
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(Kate)
Poruszająca historia. Myślę, że każdej kobiecie wychowanej w zachodniej cywilizacji trudno jest zrozumieć motywy bohaterki, jednakże twórcy filmu dołożyli wszelkich starań aby przedstawić obiektywnie jej historię. Skłania do poszerzenia swoi (jirafita)
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