A Lebanese drama joins the fight to ban child marriage

NOUR' begins like a romantic comedy. A 14-year-old girl spends her summer holidays in the mountains with a gang of six friends; they ride their bikes through the woods and swim in the nearby river. Nour is a cheerful teenager with a luminous smile, inseparable from her friend Wassim. The two flirt innocently, braving the teasing of their friends, but never going further than a furtive kiss on the cheek.In an expression of teenage rebellion that seems sweetly old-fashioned, the teenagers steal oranges from a local orchard, eggs from the priest's hen house and sweets from the local shopkeeper so that they can enjoy lunch cooked over a fire in the woods. Later, the three girls clamber into their treehouse, giggling hysterically as they throw water balloons at the boys, who retaliate with water pistols.The film swiftly turns into something much darker: 'Nour' is fiction with a powerful undertone of social commentary. At home, Nour's older brother is a sullen bully, whose resentment occasionally spills over into...Continue reading
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