Saturday, September 24, 2011

Nadine Labaky's film: Where do we go now?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrL-XIdQng4&feature=related


W halla2 lawein? Rah ellkon lawein:
Nadine, every now and then, somewhere, somehow, something happens and creates a new phenomena, and new trend, a new beginning. It's what we call "the tipping point". 
Well I think your film is "the tipping point" in the history of the lebanese cinema. It's not going to be the same from now on.
For the first time in my life, a movie touches me so deeply and changes something inside me.
It's just around the end of the movie, when the christian ladies pretend they're muslims and vice versa that something struck me and woke me up after a 36 years coma.
What if it did really happen to me for real? What if I woke up one day to find my wife wearing a veil and reading the Koran? 
I think that film came 36 years late. It should have been filmed back in 1975, the year I was born, the year the war was born. I truly believe it would have made a big difference.
Cast, script, performance, direction... thumbs up and hats off.
W halla2 lawein? Rah elkon lawein... halla2 lezem masihiye w islem, nerja3 nheb khayna el ensen w nsalle abena w salem, barke alla byechfa2 3al tnein w yenfokh rouh el salem bi aleb kel wahad ba3do mich 3erfein eno ma elo ghayrak ya lebnen.

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