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The Red Tent (2014 TV Mini-Series/Sony DVD)


Picture: B Sound: C Extras: D Episodes: B-



Raised by her mother, her aunts, Dinah has been raise by the women of the Red Tent, daughter of Jacob and Leah, sister to Joseph. In The Red Tent, she learns from the wise woman and their experiences in how to be a midwife of her tribe. However, as Dinah grows up, she surrounded by her envious brothers who murder her husband and eventually land her in slavery. Dinah leaves her family and becomes slave for the Egyptians while raising her son without telling him she is his mother... only years later does he learn what happened to the family she left.


What is the Red Tent? To men, it is the place when women are monthly 'unclean' and to spend their days, but to the women, it is the only place and time where they can talk with each other, share their wisdom, share their stories and build their friendships with their other wives and women of their tribe. Dinah grows up headstrong and independent, believing in a woman can choose her own path, but when she falls in love with a Prince of another tribe, she is punished and then forced to be come a slave/midwife. Then she uses her skills she has learned in the Red Tent to build her own life. It is only years later she is reunited with her family and made peace and forgave those who had wronged her.


This TV mini-series had an all star cast of characters and was a retelling of Jacob's and his daughter's story through the eyes of a woman. If their is a Prodigal son story, this would be the Prodigal Daughter story. More than often, you have to remember during this time women was treated lower than slaves, they are breeding stock, things, they were tools in which the men use for trade, marriage and dowry. It teaches that a woman's role/place should child bearing, they should follow traditions and obey their husbands. If not, women must then endure the roles in which society gives them. Minnie Driver and Debra Winger are among the cast.


The anamorphically enhanced 1.78 X 1 image is nicely shot and plays well throughout, but the lossy Dolby Digital 5.1 mix is a bit soft and a bit off with too much sound in the front and center channels. There are no extras.



- Ricky Chiang


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