The real Olfa and her two youngest daughters appear throughout the film.
We are going to relive it all, one of the youngest daughters says.
Its going to open up old wounds.
‘Four Daughters’Kino Lorber
Here, the intent differs.
Four Daughtersis riveting in large part because the charismatic Olfa galvanizes attention.
Her dynamism cannot be obscured beneath a funereal head covering.
Olga’s youngest daughters, Eya and Tayssir, who ultimately rejected Islamic fundamentalism.Kino Lorber
The difference she fought back.
We learn Olfa and her siblings were raised by a single mother.
I became a man to protect my mother, she recalls.
I hit anyone who attacked us.
But hes in for a surprise when Olfa fights back and bloodies him.
By the standards of the Arab world, Olfa may seem like a liberated woman.
They were charged with terrorism in absentia.
By fretting over them becoming whores, she inadvertently pushed them towards religious extremism.
IfFour Daughtersshould earn that honor, it would be a deserving winner.
