Barbara Wally has been known throughout Austria for her outspoken feminist views for decades. But a few years before retiring from the International Summer Academy for Fine Arts in Salzburg, her life took a drastic turn.
During a 10-day vacation to Yemen, she fell in love with a chauffeur named Khadher and became his second wife. "In every conversation, it was imperative that I become Muslim", she explains. "He doesn't want me to end up in hell."
So this atheist Austrian converts to Islam, prays five times a day, and says goodbye to her beloved bacon. Directing duo Andreas Horvath and Monika Muskala pay her a visit in both Salzburg and Yemen.
The heavyset woman with long, dyed red hair is a striking presence in the latter country. Together with her husband, she runs a local travel agency called Adensafari. But while her spouse spends his days slumped in his chair chewing qat or drinking tea with male relatives, Barbara can barely leave the house - a highlight of her daily routine is a game of dominos.
Arab Attraction is a remarkable portrait of a special woman who has drastically revised her point of view and now questions post-feminist Western society.
Her switch to a subservient existence seems almost masochistic, or is Barbara just looking for peace and security in her new faith?
Örökmozgó, half past 6, Erzsébet krt.39. Budapest.
2011. október 8., szombat
2011. október 2., vasárnap
Hungarian Filmclub with English subtitles in Odeon Lloyd Cinema, Budapest
- 12th October
1958. 2 years after the revolution people still suffer the consequences of whatever they did or didn't do in the fall of 1956. Then an ordinary Monday comes when nothing major happens but three people's live change forever.
- 25th October
One of the funniest Hungarin films ever made will give an insight into how these weird creatures tried to cope with the changes in the early '90s. Tights are burning in the garden, red stars and barbed wire served their purpose in the cellar, flying saucers land in the kitchen, then an eartchake changes it all..............
- 9th November
Past and folk dance. These two random things come beautifully together when two brothers meet after 20 years of separation. And when old passions and problems resurface, you can't refuse to dance.
- 23th November
Divorcing after a half a lifetime of marriage must be tough. It might break you, make you ill and hysterical. Your reactions might alienate people. You might make some drastic changes. You might think you could cut all loose ends. You might end up in Istanbul...
Movies start at 8 p.m., tickets are 900Ft(appr.3 Euro)/750Ft with a Funzine card.
Free welcome drinks from 7.30 p.m.
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