The Island of Forgiveness: Ridha Bà©hi's Last World Masterpiece
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- 17 Oct 2022
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The feeling I had throughout the two hour drive home tonight was a feeling of pride! The pride that in my country there are film giants such as Ridha Béhi, capable of producing films of rare beauty: "The Island of Forgiveness", what luck... what pleasure... what joy to have had the privilege of attend!!!
This film is so deep that behind each sentence of the script, I wanted to tell the director, stop… stop, tell me more… go on… you haven't said everything. A scenario of such depth is very rare… It denotes great courage, lucidity, and such unequaled patriotism. I could write a book just to analyze every sentence, every gesture, every look... every word spoken and the hundreds of words left unsaid...
I am not a film or literary critic, but such a film must be taught not only in all cinema classes, but also in faculties, law, political science, literature, history… Why?
Simply because Si Ridha had the courage to tackle a very complex, very deep, almost taboo subject: forgiveness! How to forgive, why forgive, whom to forgive...and there are no answers to these questions, because forgiveness is such a personal matter, so private...so intimate...and yet Ridha Béhi dared to ask them...these very intimate, and daring, he stretched out his hand on both sides of the Mediterranean...
This film is not intended for the Tunisian public, it is also intended for the European public and not only French or Italian… it is a film which courageously starts a conversation which is so overdue that almost no one has the courage to talk anymore. have… and yet we cannot turn the page, move on to the next chapter, if we are unable to analyze what happened, everything that happened… We owe it to ourselves, to our parents as well as our children and grandchildren!
This film is a world film which reconciles us with ourselves and our history… I am not there and yet somewhere, I find myself there… the places, the images, the lights… everything is there. Not a single false note, not a word too much or less, not a scene more or less… this film calls out to all of us because it forces us to open the wounds of our ancestors, to clean them in order to be able to close them forever, as a good psychoanalyst would do! Read More…
