Girls of the Sun

Girls of the Sun is a 2018 French war drama film directed by Eva Husson. It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.

Cast

Golshifteh Farahani as Bahar
Emmanuelle Bercot as Mathilde, inspired by Marie Colvin
as Tiresh
Evin Ahmad
Behi Djanati Atai as Dahlia

Reception

The film was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of, based on reviews, and an average rating of. The site's critical consensus reads, "Girls of the Sun has the best of intentions, but this worthy - and thoroughly timely - story is fatally undermined by its clumsily overbearing execution." Agnès Poirier noted that the film initially received "high praise at Cannes" but later "an overwhelming majority of we critics found the film appalling: dreadfully written, poorly directed, verging on obscenity for treating tragedy with Valkyrie-like music and aestheticised images".