Arab Blues (2020) Reviews & Ratings

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Arab Blues reviews

Arab Blues holds a 6.1/10 average from 253 TMDB ratings.

Arab Blues (A Couch in Tunis) is an instantly likeable film. Its opening shot - about an old man's description of who Sigmund Freud might be from his looks - is charming and so is the story that succeeds it of a young woman (Golshifteh Farahani) coming back to her homeland, Tunisia, from Paris to start a psychoanalysis practice. She knows she will be looked down for it, a testament that she immediately gets from her…
— Tejas Nair (8/10)

Selma, a psychoanalyst, deals with a cast of colorful new patients after returning home to Tunisia to open a practice.

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