Hair salons are sacred spaces. Where else could one catch up on the latest neighborhood gossip and engage in mindless chit-chat, while getting treated to a wash, trim and blow-out? But in “Paradise…
Hair salons are sacred spaces. Where else could one catch up on the latest neighborhood gossip and engage in mindless chit-chat, while getting treated to a wash, trim and blow-out? But in “Paradise Now“ director’s restrained yet gripping “Huda’s Salon,” a feminist political thriller whose philosophical observations are richer than its white-knuckle moments, the titular Bethlehem joint secretly operates as something other than a pampering safe haven.
In her salon’s backroom, we swiftly discover the reason. A longtime traitor servicing the Israeli secret service under the nose of the Palestinian resistance, Huda fully strips off Reem’s clothes and photographs the unconscious woman in compromising positions alongside a nude male model who’s clearly well-versed in his paid schtick. “Call my contact Musa with information from time to time,” Huda demands from her latest recruit once she wakes up in utter shock and confusion.
The wonderful Awad charges Huda’s evolving stance with an earned sense of nonchalant wisdom as she gets interrogated by Hasan , a man who doesn’t buy the dispassionate Huda’s victimhood claim. Neither do we, truth be told. But Abu-Assad is such a gifted writer that we can’t blatantly hate or judge her either.
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