Directed by:
Liana & RenaudScreenplay:
Liana & RenaudCinematography:
Mark KhalifeComposer:
Zeid HamdanPlots(1)
On a full moon night, the young Najwa and the musician Mansour reach Beirut. They follow the trail of smugglers to join a woman on the other side of the sea. A few streets away, Selim, the old lighthouse keeper, tries to repair the electricity of his neighborhood. (Cannes Film Festival)
Reviews (1)
A metaphorical night-time journey to freedom and a better life. A lighthouse with an old keeper in the middle Lebanon built up with towers, a mystical fortune-teller and a couple heading to the coast to catch a boat that is supposed to take them to Europe. Everything said and done in the film has a meta hallucinatory dimension, but the interconnectedness of it all holds it together and the actors’ facial expressions become almost hypnotic. But this film is certainly not for everyone. A typical work from the heavily anti-mainstream Cannes section with the fitting name “Acid” (as in LSD). [Cannes FF]
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