Bint El-Hares

An enchanting movie about the simple life in a small town in Lebanon, reflecting the hypocrisy of society in the form of town council which is full of deceit and liaisons. and a simple girl who found her father, the guard, fired because there is no criminals left in town anymore, which led her to disguise as a masked thief and started to disturb the town hoping the town council would put her father back on service. Aside from the plot, the songs and music is great, for the star, Fairuoz, is the Arab world diva, which adds a lot to the atmosphere of the movie. while her acting skills may not be terrific, the story-line and the all-time favorite songs makes it up. A must see for Fairouz dedicated listeners, and Arabic music fans in general.

The third and last cinematic effort starring Arab diva Fairuz is a simple, enchanting story set in a fictional Lebanese town about a young girl's courageous efforts to return her father, an aged guard, to his position, from which he was fired due to the peace and quiet and lack of crime in town, which the town council saw as proof of his dispensability rather than his effectiveness. The story is straightforward enough, but what really makes this movie is the picturesque atmosphere of the green Levantine landscapes depicted, and also the beautiful soundtrack composed by the Rahbani brothers, with the opening song easily being a highlight.

The movie is enchanting but also a bit saddening when you contrast the peaceful, almost mythological middle east depicted in this movie, with the present reality, where problems are bigger than a simple miscarriage of justice and require more than a courageous crossdressing girl to solve.

The story of the Lebanese village and Lebanese traditions that are no more, a story of a nations that is no where but in our dreams now, and in the far villages in the Lebanese Holy mountains, a silent village that suddenly falls into the tragedy of ingratitude and lies, and the struggle of a young girl to survive and to give back her father the Job he had lost, all this in a magnificent setting with gorgeous scenes from the Lebanese Nature and landscapes that tourists come from the end of the world to see. With the presence of the Great Fairouz who represented the Arab nations in the revival of the Geneva Convention in 1998