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  Review by Jamie Brown ★★★★½

  Seen at BFI London Film Festival 2022
  Festival strand: Official Competition

  Magical realism, teen romance, female emancipation, warmth and humour. All somehow convincingly found in the bombed-out remains of one Damascus household.

  Nezouh takes place during a siege that has seen the central family's district become mostly evacuated. Mutaz (Samer al Masri), the patriarch, stubbornly refuses to accept the inevitable, offended by the shame of becoming displaced. He insists to his wife Hala (Kinda Halloush) and youngest daughter Zeina (Hala Zein) that they stay put. His denial is comedic; he even imagines that his elder daughters, who have been married off and have fled along with everyone else, are still in the house. Mutaz's insistence reaches farcical levels after a…

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  Review by Rosa ★★★★

  ik, in strijd met heel TFL om deze film als eerste te loggen🫡🫡

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  Review by Emilie ★★★★★ 1

  Cinematografie 10/10, muziek 100/10

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  Review by sandroisadognow ★★

  While there is a lot of potential, NEZOUH never knows what it wants to be. Instead of finding their own style, the producers sadly decided to haphazardly throw together as many ideas, shots, and genres they could think of. Especially the slapstick-ish comedy approaches were out of place and never allowed the viewers to really connect with the movie‘s characters. This lack of consequence, paired with some rather mediocre acting performances, make the whole movie a sometimes quite lengthy watch - especially towards the end.

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  Review by Bruno Souza ★★★★

  Seen at 46th São Paulo International Film Festival

  Even though it is a film whose background is a bloody war, the narrative takes us to a very pure, simple and dreamy place in which a girl taking her first steps into adulthood lives. The scenes are very beautiful, especially the images with sheets. In the midst of the destruction of the war, I felt a certain peace. After all, the sea will remain sea even after the bombings.

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  Review by Ed Gutteridge ★★★★

  London film festival 2022, #10/15

  Really really loved this. Syrian director Soudade Kaadan with a beautiful film, laced with magical realism. Set in the later part of the war in Syria, it's hopeful and funny but not unserious. an incredibly good way to make a war-set film

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  Review by Matilde ★★★ 2

  Aspetto che qualcuno mi dica il titolo di quella canzone che parte quando Hala salta trai cuscini. 
  Grazie

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  Review by Benedetta Beltrami ★★★★

  Sweet like a date under Damasco bombs

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  Review by Abdullah ★★★★★

  لو فيه اكثر من 5 نجوم بعطيه بس للأسف 

  اول فلم دمشقي اتابعه اتوقع والله اني وانا اتابع مصدوم من اللي جالس اشوفه ،، كنت متوقع بشوف فلم عادي ويميل للسوء بس اللي شفته شي مهول والله 

  الدوامة اللي يدخلك اياها الفلم رهيبة وبنفس الوقت توتر 

  
  مره تحزن ومره تفرح تقريباً خلال اول نص ساعه مشاعر متلخبطه وغريبة

  اعجبني اداء سامر بالفلم مع اني ماعرفه الا بباب الحارة لكن انصدمت من اللي شفته منه والله شي مب طبيعي حقيقه

  وكِندا اخر نص ساعه انصدمت من اللي سوته والله

  
  بالنهاية الفلم أعجبني رُغم سوداوية قصته إلا أن المُخرجة سؤدد أظهرته بشكل مميز جداً

  مُغرم والله 

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  Review by TamsAndAll ★★★★

  بصير لاجيء المهم بكون معك "
   
  Home is not four walls and electricity home is the people we stick to on the way, home is love we hold dearly to our hearts. 
  هنكون نازحين بس لو نسينا و مشينا و سيبنا ورانا الناس ال كانت بيوتنا و حبنا و عمرنا مش الاربع حيطان

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  Review by cineurbe

  A besieged and denied Damascus where "everyday is a mortar" and really doesnt matter how many bombs miss or land, cause even though yet far away, the sea will still be there for us all in the end, even if it just becomes a bright image on a face, from the reflection of a makeshift screening-room rooftop.
  As a fishergirl can cast a lifeline in that alternate ocean of hope, while still giving back a smile to a jasmine flower, as brighter memories can still be shared, turning a warzone into a magical dreamzone, of displacement, replacement and eventual renewal.

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  Review by GPLG ★★★★

  Très mignon et touchant et triste sans etre niais