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| Film Review: Girls of the Sun | |
| 2026-07-13 | |
This is a French film set in 2012 Syria during the worst of the Syrian civil war, when ISIL and al-Nusra were in their ascendance.. The central character is an American photojournalist, Marie Colvin who is embedded with an all-female Kurdish rifle unit, who we later learned, was killed in a directed Syrian air strike. Marie Colvin is a central character but the film focuses on the female militiamen. The film recounts through their eyes how they became involved as fighters of the Kurdish side, mostly about their interactions with a local ISIL, always involving rape and murder of Kurdish women. The film doesn't spend much time with the room clearing the unit performed with none of the depicted heroics. Their involvement in combat is grim and the moments spent away from combat are punctuated about their reasons to fight the ISIL units. The film is in French and the Kurdish language, with occasional English thrown in, but there are English subtitles. I recommend the film for its portrayal of the times. | |
| Posted by:badanov |