Sisters in Arms

2019 [FRENCH]

Action / Drama / War

10
IMDb Rating 6.1/10 10 1629 1.6K

Plot summary

Kenza and Yaël are two young French women who go to Syria to fight alongside the Kurdish forces. There they meet Zara, a Yezidi survivor. Born in different cultures but deeply united, the women-fighters heal their past wounds and discover their present strength, especially the fear they inspire in their opponents. The three young women soon bound together and become true sisters-in-arms.

Director

Caroline Fourest Photo
Caroline Fourest

Top cast

Dilan Gwyn Photo
Dilan Gwyn as Zara
Mark Ryder Photo
Mark Ryder as Al Britani
Nanna Blondell Photo
Nanna Blondell as Snipe
Amira Casar Photo
Amira Casar as Commander
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
1.01 GB
1280*534
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles fr  
23.976 fps
1 hr 52 min
Seeds 1
2 GB
1920*800
French 5.1
NR
Subtitles fr  
23.976 fps
1 hr 52 min
Seeds 2

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by grantss 5 / 10

Powerful story, clumsily told

Syria, mid-2010s. The radical jihadist group Islamic State / ISIS is gaining ground, arbitrarily murdering anyone who gets in their way and kidnapping women. Over time the people of the area start to fight back. One such unit is a group of women, who, due to the atrocities committed against women and against their families and friends by ISIS, are personally invested in the fight.An interesting story and one that needed to be told. The fact that it is a group of women makes for particularly powerful story as the barbaric customs of ISIS saw them treating women as less than human. The women are thus fighting for more than just their homeland but for their right to exist and be treated equally. It also makes the stakes very high for the women in the unit as capture would mean a fate worse than death.While the film has great ideals and a good central story, unfortunately the execution is quite clumsy. There's heaps of sub-plots and scenes that add nothing to proceedings. The plot is filled with trite, predictable, cheesy developments and gung ho characterisations. Some originality and grittiness would have gone a long way.Overall, not terrible but could have been a whole lot better.
Reviewed by blackhawks-67239 7 / 10

Well meaning, but much was lost in foreign dialogue.

Overall a worthwhile film. Yet half of their story (unless you're multilingual) is lost; the CC does not translate the foreign language, and this is an issue with many other films.How are we supposed to understand the deeper message, the cultural differences, when there is no translation? Again, this is pervasive in many good foreign films, this is only one example.So having watched this, and appreciating their struggle, we only get half of the story. I find this reprehensible; when will directors and producers finally wake up and give the rest of us the whole picture?For this reason, I only give it seven stars, and that rating is more then generous.
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