Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It starts, as so many horrible things do, without even a glimmer of the terror to come. Young ...

Huda’s Salon peaks early, during the only scene that’s actually set at Huda’s Salon. Located in occupied Palestine—the film’s English subtitles pointedly never refer to Israel by name, only as “the ...

“Do you think you’re living in Sweden?” asks the titular hairstylist of “Huda’s Salon” with a sigh, although her question is surely rhetorical: After all, both she and the captor who is conducting her ...

From two-time Palestinian/Dutch Academy Award nominee Hany Abu-Assad (“Omar”), “Huda’s Salon” tells the story of two Palestinian women whose lives are threatened by patriarchal forces out of their ...

In Hany Abu-Assad’s pulpy thriller, two Palestinian women are trapped between political enemies that are united in their misogyny. By Devika Girish When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...

Wife and new mother Reem (Maisa Abd Elhadi) visits Huda’s hair salon in occupied Bethlehem for the usual treatment: a trim and blow dry, a little gentle gossip, a heart-to-heart. She leaves weighted ...

Hany Abu-Assad’s gripping thriller, “Huda’s Salon” is based on true events. In Bethlehem, Reem (Maisa Abd Elhadi), a Palestinian, is getting her hair done by Huda (Manal Awad). But after she sips some ...

A Palestinian political thriller called "Huda's Salon" centers on two women who face a terrible choice - betray yourself or your country. Film critic Bob Mondello says if it were only that simple. BOB ...

The filmmaker seems eager to twist "Huda's Salon" into a more tense outing. But what tension can there ever be when you already know how this will all end? It starts ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Do you think you’re living in Sweden?” asks the titular hairstylist of “Huda’s Salon” with a sigh, although her question is ...