It’s hard to know who’s the perfect audience for “The Perfect Candidate,” Haifaa Al Mansour’s first Saudi film since “Wadjda.” Even more than in that debut hit, her latest is clearly designed to de…
” feels even more by-the-book, carefully ensuring its main character, a woman doctor who runs for municipal council, experiences the trajectory deemed necessary to show the Kingdom as a place where female solidarity and a gradual easing of restrictive rules are leading to more fulfilling lives. Activists will argue the pace of transformation is too slow, government defenders will counter that real parity is a pipe dream and cultural practices take time to change.
Back home, she and her sisters Selma and Sara prepare an elaborate Ramadan evening meal, shared with their father Abdulaziz , an oud player whose grief at his wife’s recent death has made him more hands-off than usual in looking after his daughters. That becomes a problem when Maryam wants to attend a medical conference in Dubai but discovers at the airport that her permission to travel is no longer valid.
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