28-03-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com

Rape Isn't Personal in the Film Beauty and the Dogs—It's a Public Problem

A bad night in Tunisia is at the center of Beauty and the Dogs.by Charles MudedeThis is the first outstanding film I have seen in 2018. It's set in Tunisia, has nine chapters (each composed of one take), happens over one night, and concerns the rape of a young woman, a university student named Mariam (Mariam Al Ferjani). Actually, the film is not so much about the rape as it is about Mariam's dogged effort to report it and make it official. Everything is against her.She first goes to a hospital
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