[LCM Articles] 'A Perfect Day' - Lebanese film @ MFA on Friday 1/19 @ 8pm (Human Rights Watch International Film Festival)

[Ghada Barkett]

Human Rights Watch International Film Festival:
http://www.mfa.org/calendar/event.asp?eventkey=26180&date=1/19/2007

'A Perfect Day' by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige (France/Lebanon, 2005, 88 min.). The second feature from the artists and film-making team of Hadjithomas and Joreige is a milestone in the renaissance of post-civil-war Lebanese cinema. Claudia (Julia Kassar), with her son Malek (Ziad Saad), finally signs the paperwork formally declaring her husband dead, 15 years after he disappeared during the war. As Claudia grapples with her torment over the empty space in her bed, the borderline narcoleptic Malek sleepwalks his way through a renovated Beirut in search of his beautiful ex-girlfriend. With a soundtrack by the hip Lebanese group Soap Kills, A Perfect Day evocatively captures a nation finding itself at a crossroads between war and peace, pain and resolution. Description adapted from the London Film Festival. In Arabic with English subtitles.

MFA members, seniors, and students $8; general admission $9



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