‘Four Daughters’, the new film from Kaouther Ben Hania, will make you weep – and restore your faith in humanity. Read the Vogue review of ‘Four Daughters’ in full, here.
Four Daughters, the searing new documentary from the twice-Oscar-nominated Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania, is guaranteed to make you weep – but what makes this inventive, heart-rending drama even more remarkable is that it’s also simultaneously one of the most joyous and life-affirming releases of the year so far.
And that is what’s brilliant about Four Daughters: Olfa is introduced to us as our hero, but it doesn’t take long for us to realise that she’s incredibly prickly, highly volatile and fundamentally flawed. She certainly had a part to play in what happened to her eldest daughters, and now, that knowledge consumes her. As Sabry asks her why she made certain choices, we see her inner turmoil. Things get worse when Olfa falls for a new lover – one who soon takes advantage of the girls, too.