Femme écrite

Naïm a renowned anthropologist wants to make a film on beautiful Mririda a Berber poet and courtesan who mesmerizes him At the brothel where she used to go Naïm is struck by the beauty the sensuous tattoos of young prostitute Adjou He immediately feels bound in his flesh and soul to Adjou a kind of mirror image to Mririda Adjous brutal murder triggers a police investigation In his desperate search for truth Naïm sways between a world of imagination and reality Lazcen Zinoun is the conductor of a film composed like a fivemovement opus framed by tribal rituals and practices like the mysterious erotic tattooing of women He sings the hymn of freedom for women to control their own bodies in a society still paralyzed by ancient codes He films Fatym Layachis goddesslike body with the same poetry and lyricism as he does the sexual passion that enflames the lovers