L'enfant endormi (2004)

Belgian film "L'Enfant Endormi" is a major disappointment.It cannot be termed as a committed feature film as the material presented in this film is only suitable for making a meaningful documentary film.What we see in this film cannot be deemed as correct stuff for a feature film as a simple plot involving Arab men going abroad for work has been extended to make a film out of it.The good thing about the film is its socialist cause.Moroccan filmmaker Yasmine Kassari has done a good humanist job by making us aware of an archaic practice wherein Arab women put their fetus to sleep as their husbands have gone abroad in search of a job.This is a bizarre practice which is taking place in many African countries.It is quite possible that this film might be construed as a biased work as nothing much is shown about men who have disappeared.Yasmine Kassari has directed a film which will surely appeal to feminists and cultural pundits.This is the only virtue of this film which is much too soporific.