Movie Review: Daughter of Keltoum (Bent Keltoum)

This French film is about the journey if a young Swiss woman, Rallia, who returns to Algeria seeking her biological mother. She was adopted as a baby by a Swiss couple. She returns to the remote mountainous village of her mother, only to discover that she no longer lives there. While staying in the village, she meets her maternal grandfather and aunt. As the film progresses she both embraces and rejects the culture of her mother. In the end self-deceptions and torturous self-sacrifices are laid bare by her final confrontation with her mother.

This movie is in French and Arabic with English subtitles. The story is somewhat interesting, but moves rather slowly.