Saturday, August 14, 2010
Eliane Raheb's Hayda Libnan
I finally managed to watch Eliane Raheb's film, Hayda Libnan. I saw it on New TV. Eliane had sent me a DVD copy early on but I lost it in the jungle of books in my house. I loved it. It was entertaining and critical. She is a fine story-teller. It revealingly discusses the sectarianism of her own family, although I wished that she covered other sectarianisms in Lebanon. Translation in the subtitles were not very accurate by the way. The film can be enjoyed by non-Lebanese as well. She has a cynical touch in her films which makes for good films.