I am in love with every single frame of this movie
Just inspiring, just leading to true reflexion
One of its kind in its artistic and esthetic's choices.. Poetry from the beginning till the end, with a new way of interpretation that no other Lebanese Director had the courage to do it this way.
From The opening scene, which begins with a bucket of water and ends with the house, we can feel an opening to an antique village, a heritage, a country, to Lebanon. This house of the past is revisited by actors that become characters; aliens that morph into the skin of those most familiar. This space becomes, throughout the film, a place of meeting; meeting with the past; meeting of the real with the imaginary.
The child during the film creates a kind of brackets. He concludes a life cycle: we return to the same space that of which we came out of, but certainly with modification, with change. The final jump the child takes sends him to new territories, towards a new discovery, a new infinity, a new virtual imaginary space, a new film. Memory reaps nothing but the harvest of interference. One throws himself into the past, tries to imagine his future, and creates a present that one overlooks relentlessly. The film that doesn't lack traveling in, makes absence to traveling back, except for two critical moments: the opening scene and the end shot. At the beginning, when the camera starts backing out from the close up of the mother, it reveals the entire scene of Childbirth, bringing all the characters close around, one next to the other, until the baby's delivery. The camera here draws the path of the newborn's journey to the outside world. The child comes out and is liberated; the camera also moves away to better simulate the situation. It is liberated from the real story and becomes the camera that will weave just as a sewing machine would, its own film.
The controversial issues that this movie talked about is so deep and true to a point it really frustrated some parts of closed societies who ask for censorship
I give all my respect to this piece of art.
