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Jul 21, 2022 · In the popular imagination of the West, Lebanon is most frequently invoked as a place of ruin and strife, not romance and enchantment. The debut feature from the filmmaker Chloé Mazlo, “Skies...
Mar 26, 2024 · The day after the August 2017 total solar eclipse spanned the country, Ginger Murphy got a phone call. The Chicago-area caller wanted to reserve 40 rooms at a Hoosier state park lodge for an eclipse due to darken skies above Indiana nearly seven years later.
- In Times of Romance and War
- Sometimes Too Cute
- Conclusion
Starring Alba Rorwacher, sister of famed Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher, as the main character Alice, the film depicts a woman’s journey to Lebanon and her subsequent romance and marriage with a Lebanese astrophysicist named Joseph (Wajdi Mouawad) which comes under strife during the Lebanese Civil War. The film is partially based on a recountin...
Mazlo uses stop-motion animations, split screens, animated drawings, and even the scenes with actual actors often have painted backdrops of the city and community giving the film a quaint stage-play like look. The often-seen comparisons to Wes Anderson, whose warm pastel color-pallet closely resembles Skies of Lebanon, are certainly apt for Mazlo’s...
These small gripes aside, Mazlo’s film is endearing and a unique portrait of a national history that isn’t often seen in cinema. It depicts the ways in which war affects personal relationships and safety well and it also understands the ways in which people both ignorantly try to deny the realities of war while also, in its inevitability, trying to...
Skies of Lebanon: Directed by Chloé Mazlo. With Alba Rohrwacher, Wajdi Mouawad, Isabelle Zighondi, Mariah Tannoury. In the 1950s, Alice leaves her Swiss homeland for Lebanon. There, the best years of her life are marred by the threat of war.
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Jul 20, 2022 · Skies of Lebanon Review: Alba Rohrwacher Leads a Creative, Heartbreaking Look at Love During Wartime. Jared Mobarak July 20, 2022. When historical events are too complex and sprawling to do them justice in a 90-minute film, the best thing is to shrink the aperture.
- Jared Mobarak
Aug 27, 2021 · A Swiss woman moves to Lebanon where she falls in love with an astrophysicist but their peace is threatened by the civil war. Director: Chloé Mazlo Writer: Yacine Badday, Chloé Mazlo
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