The director of ‘Libertad’ has co-written the Lebanese film directed by Mounia Akl.
In her first feature film as a director, Mounia Akl returns to the motif of a family in search of their own utopia far from the world, in the manner of films such as ‘The Mosquito Coast’ or ‘Captain Fantastic’. Installed in a small self-sufficient Eden on the outskirts of Beirut, the Badri see their way of life threatened by the expansion of literal and metaphorical toxic waste coming from the city. With a script written together with Clara Roquet, Akl combines a very balanced family drama with the X-ray of the contradictions that drag a resistant company of this type. Each character receives personalized attention while the patriarchal inertias that drag these projects emerge, the dark side of the isolationist will and the difficulties of resisting alone the attacks of a predatory global capitalism. With two of the most charismatic presences in Arab cinema, director Nadine Labaki and Saleh Bakri, leading the cast, Costa Brava, Lebanon It connects from the ecological conscience with a tradition of political cinema more reflective than combative.
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DATA SHEET
Address: Mounia Akl Distribution: Nadine Labaki, Yumna Marwan, Saleh Bakri, Nadia Chancel, Liliane Chacar Khoury, Ceana Restom, Geana Restom, Nadia Charbel, François Nour Original title: Costa Brava, Lebanon Country: Lebanon Year: 2022 Release date: 27–05-2022 Gender: Drama Script: Mounia Akl, Clara Roquet Duration: 106 minutes
Synopsis: The Badri family has escaped from Beirut to build their own utopia away from the pollution and conflict of the big city. But this oasis of resistance to global capitalism is threatened by the advances of a nearby landfill and internal rifts within the family.
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