Girls of the Sun

2018 film

12 May 2018 (2018-05-12) (Cannes)

CountryFranceLanguages

Kurdish
French
Arabic
English^[1]

Box office$19,712^[2]

Girls of the Sun (French: Les filles du soleil) is a 2018 French war drama film directed by Eva Husson. It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.^[3]^[1]

Cast

Golshifteh Farahani as Bahar
Emmanuelle Bercot as Mathilde, inspired by Marie Colvin^[4]
Erol Afşin [de] as Tiresh
Evin Ahmad
Behi Djanati Atai as Dahlia

Reception

The film was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.^[3]^[1] On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 46%, based on 50 reviews, and an average rating of 5.8/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Girls of the Sun has the best of intentions, but this worthy - and thoroughly timely - story is fatally undermined by its clumsily overbearing execution."^[5] Agnès Poirier noted that the film initially received "high praise at Cannes" but later "an overwhelming majority of we critics found the film appalling: dreadfully written, poorly directed, verging on obscenity for treating tragedy with Valkyrie-like music and aestheticised images".^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Debruge, Peter; Keslassy, Elsa (12 April 2018). "Cannes Lineup Includes New Films From Spike Lee, Jean-Luc Godard". Variety. Penske Business Media. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
^ "Girls of the Sun (2019)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 26 April 2019.
^ ^a ^b "The 2018 Official Selection". Cannes Film Festival. 12 April 2018. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
^ "Le Monde - Les Filles du Soleil". Le Monde.fr. 13 May 2018.
^ "Girls of the Sun (2018)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
^ Agnès Poirier (14 May 2018). "#MeToo activists should stop trying to be film critics – they undermine feminism". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 May 2018.