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Cinema Wednesdays - Hélène Lavoyer

«Scorpion sting, snake bite, she listens to the poison. And she sings. The scorpion mantra.» Aadam

From the soft hollows of the dunes in Rajasthan's vast desert region rises a slow chant. «O my master, hear my prayer», intones Nooran (Golshifteh Farahani), crouching at the bedside of a dying man stung by a scorpion. The whole village listens, as if bewitched by the voice carried through the night by the wind, which stirs the grains of fine, beige sand.