![]() Zoha (played by Darine Hamze, who is probably a better singer than actor) is a bountiful young singer who falls in love with unusual Frenchman Mathieu (Berling), who claims to be a lawyer for a French telecom company on his way to draw up a contract in Syria. ![]() ![]() With a bit of luck Arbid’s film, screening in Locarno this week, may find a few more festival spots before it reaches the small screen. Limp and loosely edited, Charles Berling looks lost in a plot he apparently can’t make head nor tail of, with intrusions of Sibelius’ Valse Triste thrown in out of context. Not quite the right climate for a tender and illicit romance. No one can keep a secret in such a place and yet nothing is out in the open. She hints at a number of routes but never commits one way or another and finally, as evidenced by a quote at the end of the film - “If you think you know Lebanon, you’ve been misinformed” - seems to suggest that it is impossible to know anything for certain about Lebanon, even after seeing her film.īehind every door there is a family relative who is a super spy. It could, but writer-director Danielle Arbid seems unable to make up her mind. This could be a romantic thriller, a political love story or a veiled portrait of Lebanese life today. ![]()
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