The Source is set in a small village somewhere between North Africa and the Middle East. For as long as anyone can remember, the women of the community have fetched water from a mountaintop spring in the blazing sun. Leila, a young new bride, urges the other women to go on love strike: no more sex until the men run water to the village.
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Romanian-born filmmaker Radu Mihaileanu directs and co-writes this 'battle of the sexes' comedy drama set in a remote North African village. It is the women who do all the work in the village, labouring up a steep mountain path to fetch water from a far-off well while the menfolk lounge around in the shade drinking tea and playing cards. The newly-married Leila (Leila Bekhti) starts a mutiny among the women when she proposes that the women withhold sexual favours until something is done to improve the situation. She is met with scorn and disbelief, not only from the men in the village but from her ill-disposed mother-in-law, Fatima (Hiam Abbass), who repeatedly encourages her son to discipline his feisty young bride.
THE SOURCE is set in a small village somewhere between North Africa and the Middle East For as long as anyone can remember the women of the community have fetched water from a mountaintop spring in the blazing sun Leila a young new bride urges the other women to go on love strike no more sex until the men run water to the village
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