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Girls of the Sun film review: Golshifteh Farahani fights ISIS in all-female war movie

3/5 starsA war movie loosely based on real events, Girls of the Sun from French film director Eva Husson deals with an all-female battalion in the Kurdish army who fought against the Islamic extremists of ISIS. In reality, these stories stem from experiences of Yazidi women, although Husson never makes explicit reference to them. Why? It’s never clear in what is one of several missteps in an otherwise rousing film.Set primarily in November 2015 and offering a Western perspective on this complex…

from South China Morning Post http://bit.ly/2XUokpq

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