Au Pays Des Juliets (In the Country of Juliets) by Mehdi Charef

Sat Oct 25, 2025

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ehdi Charef, Au Pays Des Juliets (In the Country of Juliets), 1992. Image courtesy Institut Lumière.

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When Sat Oct 25, 2025

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After several years in prison, three women (one of whom is played by Maria Schneider) are granted a 24-hour furlough. Although each one intends to visit family, their plans are upended by a general strike that has halted all public transportation. Strangers to one another before this day, the three women’s shared circumstances of being stranded facilitate a bond between them. Unfolding over a single day, Charef’s narrative follows the women as they wander through the city, presenting a nuanced and layered reflection on the marginal position of women in society. 1992, France, 35mm, French with English Subtitles, 92 min.

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Bio

Mehdi Charef is a novelist and filmmaker from Maghnia, Algeria. In the early 1960s his family left Maghnia to live in France, where Charef was trained as a mechanic and worked in a factory. Many of his films and novels focus on the experiences of poor immigrants in modern France and the difficulties of living between two civilizations. Charef spent his teenage years in slums on the outskirts of Paris, becoming frustrated with the lack of time and resources to spend on writing. After a stint in prison, he was released at the age of twenty and decided he would never return. In 1983, his first novel Le Thé au harem d’Archimède (Tea in the Harem) was published. The book was soon optioned by filmmaker Costa-Gavras and made into a film, winning a César, and the Special Jury Prize at the Madrid International Film Festival. Charef’s films, La Maison d’Alexina (1999) and Pigeon volé (1996), were adapted from his novels of the same name.

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