Teenage girls left to fend for themselves on the streets of Cairo are profiled in this documentary from Egyptian filmmaker Tahani Rached. In El-Banate Dol, orphaned and homeless girls share the grim facts of their daily lives -- they have little money, nowhere to stay, are frequently the target of rapists, and are often scarred facially by their attackers who believe the girls are to blame for the crimes committed against them. Some have been left with children by their boyfriends, who then shun
the girls for bringing them shame in the form of illegitimate babies. With few options and fewer prospects, the girls frequently blot out their misery by sniffing glue or taking pills, though a few older women try to give them the moral support they need to avoid such temptations. El-Banate Dol follows the lives of these young women without sentimentalizing or sensationalizing their plight, but depicts the severity of their tragedy by allowing audiences to observe their lives at face value. El-Banate Dol (aka These Girls) received its North American premier at the 2006 Toronto Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
Skillful, tight editing reveals the volatile patterns of behavior, shifting suddenly from fights to confessions, dancing to despair, yet in the end the girls are always fiercely supportive of each other.
Fell asleep watching . David Boreanez stars as a married man, who?s sleeping with the baby sitter, her friends find out & they add themselves to the mix. Taking turns and finally he?s had it & wants out. He devises a plan with a buddy of his that goes awry. The movie & the characters are boring. We?ve all seen or heard
of various incarnations of movies like this. The characters (actors acting) seems wooden. F
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