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‘Promised Sky’ Review: Erige Sehiri Delivers a Keenly Observed Migrant Drama With a Documentarian’s Aesthetic
At times untidy, but cumulatively powerful, Sehiri’s authentic look into the lives of Ivorian women in Tunisia is deeply human.
Selected to open the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival, French Tunisian director Erige Sehiri’s intimately conceived drama “Promised Sky” follows four generations of Ivorian immigrant women as they find solidarity, conflict and sometimes a sense of displacement in one another’s company. “Promised Sky” loosely reflects real events, and feels visually and texturally truthful thanks to Sehiri’s authentic point of view and cinematographer Frida Marzouk’s poetic lens. After abruptly introducing the character, writers Sehiri, Anna Ciennik and Malika Cécile Louati sadly treat her like an afterthought; it almost feels as if they have struggled to find a real purpose for Kenza in the tale, missing an opportunity with a gifted child actor who will quietly break your heart with her final scene.
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