Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces

Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces 1990 Full Movie Download In Arabic 1080p 720p 

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Ferid Boughedir’s warm, sensual and witty “Halfaouine–Boy of the Terraces” is one of the most exquisitely told coming-of-age tales imaginable. Boughedir’s graceful, supple style expresses his affection for the ancient Halfaouine quarter of Tunis, which is his film’s setting, and above all, his love for women.Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces 1990 Full Movie Download

One of the Arab world’s leading film critics, Boughedir, in his feature debut, in fact worships women, celebrating their beauty, dignity and eternal mystery. In doing so he cannot but remind us of how all too rare this view surfaces in contemporary world cinema.We meet his “boy of the terraces,” the handsome 13-year-old Noura (Selim Boughedir, the director’s talented nephew), not on the neighborhood rooftops (or terraces)–where he retreats to sort out his thoughts, emotions and dreams–but in a women’s Turkish bath. As he has countless times before, he has gone there with his beautiful, loving mother (Rabia Ben Abdallah), but this time is different: He becomes aware, perhaps for the first time, of his attraction to the opposite sex, something which the bath’s elderly proprietor’s sharp eyes do not miss.Although Selim hangs out with two older guys, he has in fact entered a period of limbo for an Arab male adolescent. He’s just become too old to spend too much time with women, who’ve clearly fussed over him all his life, yet he’s still too young for the company of men. This leaves him considerably on his own since, in his community, men and women live virtually separate social lives.He’s not close to his father (Mustapha Adouani), a sometimes bullying traditional macho type who runs a fabric shop and who flirts with his female customers. His mentor is the local shoemaker, Salih (Mohammed Driss), a would-be playwright, a free spirit and unapologetic libertine. Through Salih’s outspokenness Boughedir reveals that considerable political oppressiveness casts a shadow over Halfaouine’s otherwise embracing community life.

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