Rita Baghdadi's documentary captures the bumpy rise of Slave to Sirens, perhaps the only all-female thrash metal band in Lebanon.
Sirens
is a likable crowdpleaser about the intersection of gender, sexuality and aggressively loud music in a culture that isn’t always open to deviations from the norm. And if my major complaint aboutwas that it was too short at only six half-hour episodes, I have similar reservations about, which runs only 78 minutes and feels a bit abrupt and choppy in places. But it’s a complaint born more of enjoyment than anything else.
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