'Sweetness in the Belly': Film Review | TIFF19
Sweetness in the Belly
That line of thinking, in turn, leads to withering retorts about defeatism, cynicism and the need to educate audiences, and so on and so on, rinse, repeat, ad nauseum, ad infinitum, etc.plays like a film made by good, well-intentioned people who have already thought all of the above arguments through and still feel no closer to knowing how to balance commercial appeal, quality control and political correctness any better than the rest of us.
Adopted and raised by a holy man, the Great Abdal , Lilly adapts entirely to her environment, and once she becomes an adult wears modest dress according to local custom. She also fluently speaks Arabic and several North African languages. Devout and obedient, she learns the Quran with such proficiency that she aims to become a religious teacher.
This meet-cute over the unconscious body of a victim of FGM is but the first tricky chord in the film's complex thematic tune, one that struggles to span the dynamics between different cultures within the story itself and those who might be watching the film from the outside.
Given apparently preferential treatment because of the color of her skin, Lilly gets set up in an apartment on a public housing estate and soon makes herself useful. Not only does she start working as an auxiliary nurse in a local hospital where she catches the amorous eye of South Asian doctor Robin Sathi — she also takes in another Ethiopian woman, Amina , and her young son, Ahmed , after Amina gives birth on the building's stairwell outside Lilly's door.
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