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The Insult, a film by the Lebanese-French director, Ziad Doueiri, about a lawsuit between a Palestinian-Lebanese refugee who fled after the Jordanian Civil War, and a Lebanese Christian who survived the Damour massacre, was nominated for the Oscars in 2018.
The history of film in Lebanon goes back to the 1890s. [15] Two years after the Lumière Brothers publicly projected their first film in December 1895 (Paris, France), they began sending traveling representatives to tour different countries to show their movies. One of the cities that they visited was Lebanon's capital city, Beirut. [15]
Wild Flowers: Women of South Lebanon [18] Jean Khalil Chamoun, Mai Masri: Jean Khalil Chamoun, Mai Masri: Documentary: 1987: Nour Productions Theater in Lebanon: French: Le Théâtre au Liban: Jean Daoud: Documentary: 1987: Adam and Eve Afif J. Arabi Assad Fouladkar Drama (short) DXM The Veiled Man: French:Homme voilé, L: Maroun Baghdadi
Andy Webb, writing in The Movie Scene noted the beauty of Beirut before Mid-East strife destroyed the once glamorous capital. Webb considered 24 Hours to Kill "quite entertaining and has a touch of 60s spy movie about it with a few moments of action, drinks laced with drugs, shady people following Norman around and of course some danger." [7]
By 1975, Lebanon was a religiously and ethnically diverse country with most dominant groups of Maronite Christians, Eastern Orthodox Christians, Sunni Muslims and Shia Muslims; with significant minorities of Druze, Kurds, Armenians, and Palestinian refugees and their descendants.
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The film was shot on location in Beirut. [2] The Lebanese Civil War, which began in 1975, would continue until 1990. The New York Times remarked that it was "filmed in 1980 under remarkable conditions: with its crew confined to "safe" portions of Beirut while the fighting went on elsewhere, but with ubiquitous evidence of real warfare ...
The film has received critical acclaim since its release. Rotten Tomatoes gives a score of 94% based on 16 reviews. [3] Critic Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly wrote a glowing review of the film stating "The film’s most resonant pleasure is the thrill Doueiri takes in ripping the veil off of contemporary Arab life... ”West Beirut ...