Released in theaters in 2017, the comedy
Cherchez la femme
by the Franco-Iranian screenwriter and director Sou Abadi had been hailed by critics but had not, in its time, conquered a large audience.
Armand/Arman (the first name exists in Persian, where it means "goal, design, ideal"), played by Félix Moati, son of Iranian intellectuals who took refuge in France after the Islamic revolution (1979), likes Leïla, played by Camélia Jordana , North African orphan who lives in a housing estate.
The latter's brother, Mahmoud, brought to the screen by the excellent William Lebghil, is a recently radicalized Muslim who decides to lock up his sister at home.
To see his girlfriend, Armand imagines a ploy: pretending to be a woman by putting on the chador,
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