Hedi: reviews

What the critics say average 7.9 from 10 outlets

• 8.8 VarietyJay Weissberg On one level Hedi is a universal story, about a young man needing to choose between duty and passion. Read
• 8.7 Cine PremiereJavier Pérez 'Hedi' is an intense drama of personal liberation splendidly acted. Read
• 8.6 The Hollywood ReporterDeborah Young Quiet but pungent and featuring vibrant performances, it offers further evidence that the rebirth of Tunisian cinema is underway. Read
• 8.2 Screen DailyWendy Ide The performances from the leads, in particular Majd Mastoura as the browbeaten Hedi, are strong. Read
• 8.0 El MundoLuis Martínez Ben Attia gets a debut perfectly executed. Read
• 7.8 ABCAntonio Weinrichter We have seen (...) films about the repression suffered by women under a certain conception of Islam. The novelty of this film is to remind us that repression also affects the other contracting party. Read
• 7.5 CinemaníaSergio F. Pinilla 'Hedi' turns the individual into the metaphor of a country, into the metaphor of a world, if you hurry, that is torn between tradition and modernity and strangled in the class struggle Read
• 7.1 El PaísJordi Costa The film has the singularity of focusing on male suffocation in a society of Muslim tradition. Read
• 7.0 FotogramasPhilipp Engel Hedi (Majd Mastoura) is starring lethargic conviction of desire between his freedom and the prize of stifling tradition. Read
• 7.0 Caimán Cuadernos de CineJaime Pena 'Hedi' denounces the hypocrisy of a society that hides its contradictions behind tradition, but it is a denunciation as well-intentioned as it is timid. Read