Like a Virgin (52')
LIKE A VIRGIN (52')
INFORMATION
FR / 2020 / 52’ / HD / French, English
Drôle de Trame / France 3 / Public Sénat / Directed by Feriel Ben Mahmoud
Worldwide rights available
TAGS
Tunisia, France, USA, Norway, Africa, Asia, Italy, girls, body, feminism, rights, women, wedding, history, religion
SYNOPSIS
Although the question of virginity seemed destined to disappear, there has been a resurgence of this custom. In the United Stated and in Europe, there are more and more women who join movements promoting abstinence until marriage. In Maghreb, far from claiming it as a choice, women continue to yield to tests to inspect their virginity. As a reaction to this pressure, a number of them resort to operations such as hymenoplasty (reconstruction of the hymen). And yet, as this film will show, physiologically, virginity does not exist. What is it a symbol of in our contemporary world?
TT Telerama
: "A "ball of purity" in the United States. Ceremonies "Trophies of virgins" in Benin, election style of Miss France. Miracle products on the Internet to "find" your virginity. Our eyes remain wide open in front of this instructive documentary on the diktats, unfounded beliefs and instrumentalization of which the body of women is still the object. This film, which questions the conservative fall back of societies before the explosion of genres, succeeds in showing without caricature the persistence of the ideal of virginity in the world, while painstakingly deconstructing a myth. Striking, from start to finish."