Plot & Summary
Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige are artists and academics who have here created a dramatized cine-essay, just over an hour long, set in Lebanon, on the Godardian theme of how the cinema can witness history. Catherine Deneuve stars, playing a version of herself, as a movie star in a film about Lebanon; she discovers scheduled scenes set in Beirut for which she is not needed, but demands to be taken there anyway - to "see". Once in the city, Deneuve's mythic status confers on her a kind of cultural laissez-passer: we see the shattered buildings through her eyes: buildings destroyed by war and their effacement completed by rebuilding programs. These are scenes of devastation rendered paradoxically invisible by TV news which assumes destruction as a given; when presented as the backdrop to cinematic drama, they come into vivid focus. History is being destroyed, both by war and the longing for reconstructed peace: who will witness the truth of what is happening? The answer is: cinema, perhaps, in the enigmatic form of Deneuve herself. Playing Deneuve's driver, Rabih Mroué has an effective scene in which, rhapsodizing about Belle de Jour, he almost drives them into a minefield. This is a potent and intriguing cinema of ideas. [Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian] Rating
7.4/10 ;107 votesDownload movie with subtitles (700 MB):
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8
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