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Watch: Divines 2016 123movies, Full Movie Online – Dounia, a teenager living in the slums and her friend Maimouna start working for Rebecca, a successful drug dealer in order to escape their poverty. Her meeting with Djigui, a sexy dancer, makes things complicated, but leaving Rebecca is not easy…
Plot: In a ghetto where religion and drug trafficking rub shoulders, Dounia has a lust for power and success. Supported by Maimouna, her best friend, she decides to follow in the footsteps of Rebecca, a respected dealer. But her encounter with Djigui, a young, disturbingly sensual dancer, throws her off course.
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Ratings:

	7.4/10 Votes: 9,959
	84% | RottenTomatoes
	71/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 590 Popularity: 7.081 | TMDB

Reviews:

a striking first film
‘Divines’ is the debut film and the only feature film made so far by French director Houda Benyamina. Presented at Cannes in 2016, it made an excellent impression, receiving the Camera d’Or award, followed by nominations and distinctions at other festivals and three Cesar awards that year. Well deserved, because it’s not only one of the best directorial debuts I can remember, but also about a painful and emotional film about love and youth in a world that doesn’t give too many chances to those on the fringes of society. The film ends with a violent demonstration and a confrontation between the police and young people in the ‘banlieus’ – the suburbs of the metropolis – such as we often see on television about Paris and other major cities around the world. This seemingly meaningless violence is what most of us get from the news. Houda Benyamina’s film, largely inspired by her own experience including participating in demonstrations and violent riots in 2005, describes one of the possible paths that lead to what we see in the news and live in the contemporary world.

“Divines’ is a film that tells a lot about the economically and socially disadvantaged, about the cosmopolitan and violent world of the ‘banlieus’ but it is and or maybe especially is a film about friendship. From this point of view, it reminded me of the movie with which Cristian Mungiu had conquered Cannes a decade before – ‘4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days’. There as well the painful social theme was doubled by that of the friendship between two girls trying to survive on the margins of society and despite its laws. In ‘Divines’ Dounia (Oulaya Amamra), the daughter of a Roma prostitute, and Maimouna (Déborah Lukumuena), coming from a traditional African Muslim family, are two teenagers who join forces to try to escape from the social condition of the periphery and from the family environments of each. The only solution they have at hand is to get involved in the local crime scene – starting with small stealing from the supermarket, continuing with drug trafficking and reaching larger scale thefts. Their dreams are the dreams of any teenager, but the solutions to honestly reach a change do not seem to exist, or in any case none is considered by the girls. Even when the opportunity for a change appears for Dounia, embodied by Djigui (Kevin Mischel), a dancer in a modern dance troupe, with whom she starts a timid relationship that seems to have a chance at some point, the odds are against. The chances of escaping their conditions for young people in their category look in this film minimal or non-existent. Is this the reality or self-destruction? Hard to tell.

Director Houda Benyamina manages to combine the assertive sincerity of social messages with the careful construction of characters and situations.The in-depth knowledge of the environment that she brings to the screens and of the typology of the characters is obvious. In the role of Dounia Oulaya Amamra is impressive, a combination of street intelligence and survival instinct, determination and vulnerability. The friendship between the two teenagers will stay in the memory of the viewers. The two hope and dream, they make mistakes like any teenager and they break the law , but they are primarily victims of social pressures and suffocating family environments. The scenes in which the two girls walk the streets of Paris, in imagination and reality, are among the best of the film. I don’t know what director Houda Benyamina has done since ‘Divines’. Her filmography is empty since then. I hope that she prepares her future films. After such a debut, my expectations are high.

Emperors new clothes.
Hmmmm, a Golden Globe nomination for best foreign movie ?? Can’t have been a good year for foreign movies. We have this girl living in a Roma camp in some Paris suburb, so we know this is a social drama. They add some social stereotypes around her, a slutty mother, a friend with very religious Muslim parents, a local gangster/drug dealer, (well, you get the drift i’m sure), all people with no real prospect of a future. On top of that we get a high-strung dramatic musical score that sets in occasionally to remind us that this is serious stuff, oh and a kind of romance between the girl and a dancer that doesn’t really add to the plot, but merely serves as an excuse for some fancy camera footage of dancers, so we can cut back and forth between violent scenes and scenes with dancers in motion. Does that make it art ? Well it seems the Globe jury bought the premise, but in my opinion this movie is 90 % window dressing to cover the fact that it’s not much of a story. The girl is obsessed with making a lot of money, but she’s also completely clueless and goes from one stupid plan to another, without realizing that there might be consequences for her actions. And that’s pretty much it. To me it seems like some new director straight out of film school, and determined to make an impression just piled a lot of clichés on top of each other and forgot that really great movies are driven by good stories.

Other Information:

Original Language fr
Runtime 1 hr 45 min (105 min)
Budget 2791874
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated N/A
Genre Crime, Drama
Director Houda Benyamina
Writer Houda Benyamina, Romain Compingt, Malik Rumeau
Actors Oulaya Amamra, Déborah Lukumuena, Kévin Mischel
Country France, Qatar
Awards 14 wins & 12 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix N/A
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Red Epic Dragon
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format N/A
Cinematographic Process N/A
Printed Film Format DCP