La Nuit sacrée
Nicolas Klotz
Some where in Morocco, between 1920 and 1950. After having had 7 daughters, a father without an heir is convinced that a dark and distant curse is hanging over his family. To change destiny and stop his brother getting his hands on his fortune he decides that his 8th child will be a boy, even if it is a girl. He will be called Ahmed and brought up in the tradition reserved for males, and will then govern his house and affairs after he himself has died...
With : Miguel Bosé, Amina, Maïté Nahir, François Chattot, Carole Andronico
Screenplay : Elisabeth Perceval
Image : Carlo Varini
Editing : Jean-Franois Naudon, Maquelone Pouget
Music : Goran Bregovic
Screenplay : Elisabeth Perceval
Image : Carlo Varini
Editing : Jean-Franois Naudon, Maquelone Pouget
Music : Goran Bregovic
Production : Flach Film, Les Films Ariane, Titane
Distribution: Tamasa
Distribution: Tamasa
Like a confession, the film opens out onto a confidence, the sharing of a heavy secret: brought up as a boy, a young girl on the night before her wedding tries to shed light on a body she has had to keep hidden. "Why are you only a man or a woman? What part does each play in a person's fate?" wondered Nicolas Klotz. Illuminated by the grace of the lead couple, the film wonderfully blends two novels by Moroccan-born writer Tahar Ben Jelloun, La Nuit sacré (The Sacred Night) for which he won the Prix Goncourt in 1987 and L'Enfant de sable (The Sand Child), into a single poetic tale, the improbable union of day and night, of the male and the female.