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Asmahan (2005)
Short | 22 min | Short

Asmahan (2005)

Short | 22 min | Short

Asmahan is a film poem about the famous Syrian singer of the same name. The film is made up of four parts: love, death, love, and death. Each part follows one of the two songs Asmahan sings in the film which are used as a structural motif ...See moreAsmahan is a film poem about the famous Syrian singer of the same name. The film is made up of four parts: love, death, love, and death. Each part follows one of the two songs Asmahan sings in the film which are used as a structural motif throughout. Like her musical notations, every shot is connected to every other shot. Nearly every shot contains Asmahan (she is the only actor in the film who appears to be talking), which is meant to create an obsessive relationship with the image reminding us of the interplay of voyeurism and exhibitionism that makes the actor that we see on the screen dream like, especially when she also sees us. This dream logic suggests that there is a hidden life, which exists through pictures, lurking in even the most superficial and trite of B-films. It is this fragment-like wholeness that is in a sense the structure of the film. As in a dream, Asmahan's actions are accentuated through a number of strategies: slowing down of the cinematic image, creating a montage of gestures, making familiar objects look estranged, repeating shots which look the same but are in fact different in their temporal and spatial sense, and the use of filters to transform her look into a romantic and haunting one (Garbo-like), but also an assertive one. Written by Hisham Bizri See less

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6 cast members

Name	Known for
Asmahan Self Self See fewer	Passion and Revenge (1944)
Yusof Wahbi Self Self See fewer	Asmahan (2005)
Anwar Magdi Self Self See fewer	Asmahan (2005)
Mahmoud El Meligy Self (as Mahmoud Al-Miligi) Self (as Mahmoud Al-Miligi) See fewer	The Count of Monte Cristo (1950)
Amal Al-Atrash Actor Actor See fewer	Asmahan (2005)
Youssef Wahbi Actor (as Yusuf Wahbi) Actor (as Yusuf Wahbi) See fewer	Confession Chair (1949)