The Perfect Candidate's reviews
Media reviews
The Guardian
Haifaa al-Mansour, the first Saudi woman to direct a feature, goes back to basics with an effective story of a doctor trying to enter politics.
The Hollywood Reporter
A feel-good Middle East tale ? a fable, really ? about a determined, courageous young woman who establishes her own identity in one of the most repressive male-oriented societies in the world.
Variety
The script is so simplistic in how it runs through a checklist of cultural practices ? women?s dress, gendered spaces, the role of music ? that it reduces the people themselves to unsophisticated representatives of change, and yet its welcome message of female empowerment will be embraced by Western audiences pleased to see women removing their niqabs.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote