Woman Unknown — May el-Toukhy [Venice ’26 Review]

There is a striking early scene with an unknown woman that cuts deep into the sensory motif embedded in the title of May el-Toukhy’s latest film. In the street noise of a Danish town just days after the liberation, a gang of Resistance men carries out its vigilante justice over, in their words, a “Nazi whore.” They scissor her long blonde hair and cut her dress to ribbons, then scrawl a swastika across her bare skin and leave her weeping...