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A poetic blending of the personal and political, Skies of Lebanon combines live action with animation to create a vivid picture of Lebanon, inspired by the family history of filmmaker Chloé Mazlo. Using stories told to her by her grandmother of life during the Lebanese Civil War, Mazlo crafts a touching and heart-breaking story of love during wartime.Alba Rohrwacher (Happy as Lazzaro) plays Alice, a Swiss woman who moved to Beirut in the 1950s and falls in love with a Lebanese man. Wajdi Mouawad (author of the play Incendies, which was the source material for Denis Villeneuve's 2010 film) plays Joseph, an astrophysicist with dreams of sending his fellow citizens into space, and the object of Alice's affection. Joseph and Alice appear to lead the perfect life until their bliss is ripped apart by the civil war and nothing will be the same again.

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Skies of Lebanon | Rotten Tomatoes (1) Claudia Puig FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles) This is a clever and also moving film. Aug 5, 2022 Full Review Skies of Lebanon | Rotten Tomatoes (2) Glenn Kenny New York Times Lebanon is most frequently invoked as a place of ruin and strife, not romance and enchantment. The debut feature from the filmmaker Chloé Mazlo, “Skies of Lebanon,” is, among other things, an intriguing swing of the pendulum of depiction. Jul 21, 2022 Full Review Skies of Lebanon | Rotten Tomatoes (3) Calum Cooper Flick Feast Both an interesting character drama and a nuanced look at the cost of war. Rated: 4/5 Jul 15, 2024 Full Review Skies of Lebanon | Rotten Tomatoes (4) Sumner Forbes Film Threat Signals the arrival of a creative new voice in Chloé Mazlo. Moreover, it works as a powerful mediation on the optimism lost for a peacefully cosmopolitan Lebanon. Rated: 7/10 Aug 17, 2022 Full Review Skies of Lebanon | Rotten Tomatoes (5) Charles Solomon FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles) I found the film limp -- that everybody is so nice, and so caring, and so warm and so together that they're not terribly interesting. Aug 5, 2022 Full Review Skies of Lebanon | Rotten Tomatoes (6) Soham Gadre Film Inquiry Mazlo’s mixing of animated and live-action creates a dream world that is shaken by the real world and the result is both striking and immensely watchable. Jul 30, 2022 Full Review Read all reviews

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Ted B Charming, whimsical and touching. A promising debut feature Rated 4.5/5 Stars • Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review isla s This is very much an imaginative, quirky drama film, which has the feel of Amelie about it, only its set in Lebanon. The mix of animation and real life settings is interesting, it also has a slight feel of Anomalisa about it but not in the adult/sexual sense, rather in there being a similar use of what I assume to be stop motion type animation at times. I liked the protagonist, the way she escapes the worrying situation her neighbourhood is in, disappearing into daydreams of one form or another. The characters are nice and friendly and it has a good use of colour. There probably is more live action than animation present but I found the mix hypnotic all the same. Its mostly a romantic drama type plot but the war element certainly plays a fair role too, so I wouldn't say its expressly a rom-com or, what? a rom-dram? whatever. Its quirky and suprisingly enjoyable. I tend to avoid war based films at the moment, as I've had enough of overly upsetting films, for the most part but this film is somewhat uplifting and with a cartoon type feel to it, I would recommend it, yes. Rated 4/5 Stars • Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member kinda lame tbh got bored not a good movie for when you are bored. Rated 0.5/5 Stars • Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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Chloé Mazlo Director Alba Rohrwacher Alice Kamar Wajdi Mouawad Joseph Kamar Isabelle Zighondi Mona Kamar Mariah Tannoury Mimi Jade Breidi Tony
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Synopsis A poetic blending of the personal and political, Skies of Lebanon combines live action with animation to create a vivid picture of Lebanon, inspired by the family history of filmmaker Chloé Mazlo. Using stories told to her by her grandmother of life during the Lebanese Civil War, Mazlo crafts a touching and heart-breaking story of love during wartime.Alba Rohrwacher (Happy as Lazzaro) plays Alice, a Swiss woman who moved to Beirut in the 1950s and falls in love with a Lebanese man. Wajdi Mouawad (author of the play Incendies, which was the source material for Denis Villeneuve's 2010 film) plays Joseph, an astrophysicist with dreams of sending his fellow citizens into space, and the object of Alice's affection. Joseph and Alice appear to lead the perfect life until their bliss is ripped apart by the civil war and nothing will be the same again.

Director
Chloé Mazlo

Producer
Frédéric Niedermayer

Screenwriter
Chloé Mazlo, Yacine Badday

Distributor
Dekanalog

Production Co
Arte, Centre National du Cinéma et de L'image Animée, Indéfilms 8, Moulin d'Andé-CECI , arte France Cinéma, Cinémage 14, Moby Dick Films, Canal+, Ciné+

Genre
Drama

Original Language
French (France)

Release Date (Theaters)
Jul 22, 2022, Limited

Runtime
1h 32m
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