‘A Fragile and Wonderful World’: a Modern, Cultured and Humanist Lebanon in a Beautiful Love Film
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What is love if not the moment when two planets are predestined to collide to form a new cosmic system, made of successive and simultaneous attractions and frictions, often unpredictable? As in any good romantic comedy that is worth it, “A fragile and wonderful world” believes that fate is written in the stars, so it is not by chance that Nino and Yasmina are born in the same hospital with only three minutes of difference, and then, already from…
In the last decade and a half, not a few films have been released from Arab countries in conflict that, marked by religion and politics, collected the (des)hopes, the angers and the more daily becoming of their ordinary citizens. However, with the work of the Iranian Asghar Farhadi as a paradigm, there have been not so many titles that addressed the turns of the heart and stomach of these people from a side where religion and politics remain, if…
In his first fictional feature film, Lebanese filmmaker Cyril Aris tells a story of love dilated in time and conditioned by the political context of the country, Lebanon, where it happens. It is the love story of Yasmina (Mounia Akl) and Nino (Hasan Akil): they know each other as children, meet more than twenty years later and their relationship, filmed by fate (it is a theme of the film, expressed with subtle magic leaks), experiences intense s…
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