Liz Seymour and the words

Arts Hub Australia, 23rd February 2009

Dolls and Angels’ French-born “père” and his wife, both of Kabyle Algerian descent, live in “the projects” (courtesy of American subtitling), one of the heaving cités on the porous outskirts of Paris. He (Samy Naceri) works for long stretches on distant and perilous construction sites while “la mère” (Fejria Deliba) stays home to rear their three unfeasibly attractive daughters. Chirine, almost 18, is a wet dream in stretch fabric and repels daddy dearest with her increasingly rampant sexual potency. Lya, around 15, is savvy, sporty and expressive, while Inès circumvents an excess of character interplay by being pie-sweet, under five and under three dimensions. The full complement is rounded out by father’s tendency toward remorseless, incandescent violence and mother’s resignation to it.

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