Bayn el Widyen... An attempt to review the movie.

Bayn el Widyen is the title of one of the latest Tunisian movies, currently screening at Al Hambra. According to the friend I went with (since my arabic is so-so), it means, "between 2 rivers".

The movie starts with a tense scene in a family room with people awaiting an event... It is then followed by a couple standing at the municipality, in front of the civil servant about to marry them. The bride is nervous, and is glancing at the door, when suddenly... suddenly she sees a man leaning on the door. She then proceeds to throw her ring on the desk, grab the leaning dude, and run out (while loosing her shoe, and tearing her pearl necklace on the steps of the municipality building). The bride snatches up the keys of the car that she would have ridden in (had she went ahead with the marriage), and proceeds to drive. The couple decides to go to North-West of the country.

The entire movie is about the couple fledding from one town to another, lovely air shots of Tunisia, and being followed by the bitter stood-up groom. There scenes are entertwinned with older scenes of the new couple as children (they are cousins, yuck) and then as young adults... They sort of explain how the dude needed to get out of the country (he "needed" to flee)...

Ok, so if I had to rate this movie, I would give it a D. The movie has no head, no tails. There is never any mention of the bride's family (I guess they did not worry about her), no proper explanation of the relationships between the bride, the groom, and the dude. The script was very weak (I was able to guess many scenes and many lines)... I did laugh though at the cheesiness of it all. There is a scene were the new happy couple (fully clothed) dives into the sea, and the bride is not wearing a bra :) There were scenes involving drinking, smoking, and even smoking weed... There was also a scene with a helicopter AND a train. I can't think of anything more to make the movie even cheesier... Do let me know what else they could have added.

I had lots of fun watching the movie, so did my friend, and we proceeded to talk more about it over a heated-up chocolate Danone that the thieves at Phukets served as "hot chocolate"...