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Hedi, a craving after freedom. Premiere
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Directed by the Tunisian Mohamed Ben Attia, this film has been received in his country with good reviews and has got the Silver Berlin Bear for Best Actor and the Best First Feature Award at the Berlin Film Festival.
Do not expect an overproduction with significant visual or sound effects, with a convoluted plot divided into subplots with intellectual pretensions. It is quite the opposite. Hedi is a simple, silent, concise movie that appeals to emotions. And above all, it has a great interpretation. Its story is linear and flows smoothly, but the way of telling it shows a high sensitivity.
Hedi is a young Tunisian who is trapped in the social conventions mostly imposed by his mother who already has decided his future. She is very proud of her son's job at a car dealership. In a few days, she is going to marry him to a girl whose only goal in life is to be a mother and a wife. But the revolution of the Arab Spring has just ended and Hedi, like many other young people of his age, feels trapped between the craving for freedom and the weight of traditions. On a work trip, the protagonist meets a liberated girl who represents modernization. With her, he may have a future free of social obstacles, but uncertain. Two voices will speak inside him: the first one pushes him to rebel against all maternal impositions; the second one takes him to follow the destiny that his mother has designed for him. It will be in this dilemma that, as the director says, "Hedi will begin to learn more about himself."
No matter what his decision will be. The truth is that an education based on submission has imposed an expression of sadness and melancholy on him. It can never be erased from his face and has led him to feel like a dead in life.
Texts: Núria Farré. facebook@cinemaperaestudiants.cat
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