• Film

Algiers/Beyrouth: pour mémoire

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Time Out says

Laurence (Babe), a French-Lebanese journalist revisiting Beirut to research her late father's history, finds a once ruined city in the slow throes of revival. She also encounters an old colleague, Rachid (Corraface), a fugitive from the continuing violence in Algiers, troubled by drink and bad memories. The drama, however, remains in the past, or otherwise offscreen. Briefly sketched, the terror racking the director's home country looms like a shadow over the characters, and the film, yet remains essentially an abstraction. Despite its evocative b/w photography and warm performances, dramatically the film seems a non-starter.

Release Details

  • Duration:95 mins

Cast and crew

  • Director:Merzak Allouache
  • Screenwriter:Merzak Allouache
  • Cast:
    • Fabienne Babe
    • Georges Corraface
    • Paul Matar
    • Hocine Choutri
    • Zeina Saab Demelero
    • Mona Tayeh
    • Shadi el Zein
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