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  Review by Wael Koubeissy ★★★★

  لا تفوتكم مشاهدته، متوفر على موقع أفلامنا حتى يوم الأحد، فيلم لبناني بإخراج جزائري في الحرب الأهلية اللبنانية، تزينه موسيقى زياد الرحباني وحضوره، شاهدته منذ سنوات وأشاهده مجددًا، من بين أفلامي اللبنانية المفضلة، أجواء بيروتية بامتياز من السبعينيات. مشاهدة ممتعة للجميع

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  Review by Miranda ★★★★ 4

  تحفة منسية.

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  Review by V. Lepistö ★★★★½

  One of the definitive films about the Arab world in the 1970s and especially Lebanon in the grip of the civil war. There's something addicting about the rhythm of camera movements and the way the camera picks different characters while gliding through rooms filled with intellectuals -- every face tells the story of an era with different emphasis. Images, dialogues, and characters are filled with angst that reflects the tightened social situation and anticipates the war, relationships seem to be in crisis, and Nahla's breakdown comes to symbolize this all. What use is music in a world where the sounds of bombs become the norm and silence might mark the end of the world? Nahla is a dense film filled with cultural and historical references that would take multiple viewings to track down and understand but at the same time, the way it captures the mood of an era and existential angst of the people is extraordinary.

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  Review by mohanadsoliman ★★★★★ 1

  كان نفسي فشخ أكون لبناني

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  Review by Med Amine Rahoui ★★

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Review by Asaad

  Never thought there was a thing combining montage by Moufida Tlatli with compositions (and a cameo) from Ziad Rahbani

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  Review by geoff thomas ★★★★★

  I cannot believe this hasn't been screened (at least in the States) in over 40 years. Seen on a beautiful 35mm print at Anthology Film Archives, it's a character study of individuals prior to an outbreak of a civil war, mostly about the woman whom they all surround and support as an emblem of a new era of Lebanon -- Nahla, a singer. Puts you directly in the atmosphere of what it's like to live in Lebanon (although shot in 1978, the movie takes place in 1975), in all of its beauty, liveliness and tenuousness. So much of the film deals with interpersonal relationships, and the stories of these people (a photojournalist, a newspaper editor, a rising star, a currency…

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  Review by saharelhani ★★★★

  ياريت هالعمر لي هرب يرجع ونحنا صغار..

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  Review by shaanrxx ★★★★

  Everytime I thought I knew what was going on, a character started having a breakdown with no context...but beautifully shot and the girls were baddies

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  Review by th4peak ★★★★

  Some movies that got the same vibes as this, always lose me. But this, somehow, never did.. i somehow understood everything, and most of all was truly into it, might even be so passionately. This in my opinion serves as a war picture more than the ones that straightforward are advertised as war pictures from our country's productions.. incredibly easy-going and neo-noir at times, works out that chill atmosphere with the unpredictable build up to major events leading to mental outbreaks. And by the end it all just felt like a soft feather touched the bloody surface, and i think that was the right ending.

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  Review by Emma Fogarty✝️☮️

  Farouk Beloufa directs a two hour war film about a journalist caught up in the Lebanese civil war.

  Mentioned here is the question of Palestinian liberation, now today we're still here years on asking that question.
  In what is a big no-no and taboo and would absolutely NOT fly in an American film, is that this has the balls to have a character directly implicate Israel for the misery in the middle east and Lebanon, siding with fascists.
  In this film war is a background thing increasingly bubbling up, beyond what I mentioned, there's a sudden shocking hit mid-film, they talk about stuff like assassination, weapons smuggling, a comrade in hiding too and there's the background noise of war, a…

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  Review by Bukayoka

  صمت صوت للبنان -لا للأبد-، حتى بأحلك اللحظات عاش الشعب اللبناني صباحه ولحظات الفرح. متجاهل للصهيوني وهجماته الساقطة مثله