Sweet And Bitter (2000)
1h 31m
Running Time
October 23, 2000Release Date
Sweet And Bitter (2000)
1h 31m
Running Time
October 23, 2000Release Date
Plot.
Barely relieved from a serious depression and against the advice of his psychiatrist, Slah, theater director, mentally weakened by his career, announces to his wife Amel, a rich woman who finances his projects, his decision to mount the famous play Essoud (The Dam) of Mahmoud Messadi renowned for its complexity. But the same evening, driving his car, Slah overthrows a young woman named Aisha. At first distraught, he then experiences a strange fascination for this beautiful young girl contrarian who becomes his friend and his muse. Amel, her husband's moral, emotional and financial support, convinced the director of the theater to program Le Barrage. Although suffering in silence of the presence of Aisha, Amel decides for love for her husband to invite the young woman near them, in the field of her parents, in an oasis of the south of Tunisia. A strange three-way household is formed when doubts and suspicions, desires and temptations, love and complexities are revealed.
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Cast & Crew.
Noureddine El Ati
Slah
Ines Baili
Actress
Sonia El Ati
Aïcha
Zoubeir Bornaz
Taieb
Lamine Nahdi
Brahim
Naceur Ktari
Director
Lotfi Bouchnak
Composer
Frida Kebaili
Amel
Georges Lechaptois
Cinematographer
Xavier Tauveron
Cinematographer
Arbi Ben Ali
Editor
Yves Comte
Editor
Karim Toukabri
Sound
Jelloul Jelassi
Belkis Cheriaa
Details.
Wiki.
Naceur Ktari's second feature film is the Tanit de bronze at the Carthage Film Days in the same year.