★★☆☆☆ A nondescript North African mountain village, serves us the setting for French director Radu Mihaileanu's re-imagining of Aristophanes' Lysistrata as a comedy drama about a group of Muslim women rebelling against their patriarchal social system in The Source (La source des femmes, 2011). Aristophanes' comedy saw the women of ancient Greece uniting to end the Peloponnesian War by refusing to take their men into their beds until peace was agreed and this is the same strategy employed by the woman of this village.
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- 7/16/2012
- by CineVue
- CineVue
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