CFF 2021: BLACK MEDUSA is a Transgressive Exploration of Trauma

Medium
by Dan Tabor

My final watch of the Chattanooga Film Festival was the secret screening of the unsettling and atmospheric Black Medusa, a film I knew absolutely nothing about before hitting play.

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The film is a reimagining of this myth, which also manages to function as a transgressive exploration of sexual trauma. Taking place over nine chapters in post-revolutionary Tunis, the film follows the beautiful Nada (Nour Hajri) who by day is a film editor and by night something more sinister.

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