Viva Laldjerie

Directed by Nadir Mokneche
Nadir Mokneche
Film Movement
2004
113 Minutes
France
French, Arabic
Drama
Not Rated
Screening Formats:
35mm, Digibeta, DVD
Sound: Stereo 2.0
Theatrical booking
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Festival and non-theatrical booking
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Materials and print traffic
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Synopsis

Three women: a mother, her daughter and a prostitute have been living in a hotel in the heart of Algiers amid creeping fundamentalism. Goucem, the daughter, has chosen a modern, emancipated life, spending steamy weekends in nightclubs. Fifi, her faithful friend, prostitutes herself under the thumb of a local protector. Papicha, the mother, eats pizzas in front of the television, torn between fear and nostalgia for the cabaret days of her youth. Known in Europe as the North African Pedro Almodovar, filmmaker Nadir Mokneche weaves a richly drawn portrait of women exiled in their own country.