Chaque jour est une fête / Every Day Is a Holiday
Dima El-Horr
France/Germany/Lebanon, 2009
29 March 2010
Walter Reade Theater, New York
Cast: Hiam Abbass (Hala), Manal Khader (Lina), Raïa Haidar (Tamara)
Three women’s lives converge on a bus heading to a men’s prison, through the Lebanese desert. The women have each come to this place because of their men, but for very different reasons.
A random, shattering event propels them out into this terrible place alone, with only each other to rely on. A deadly world of hot sun, distant artillery fire, and mute packs of refugees, always leaving.
Leave this land where only nightmares bloom. Nothing will change. Nothing can change.
In her first feature film, Dima El-Horr composes scenes of acute intimacy against an epic vision of desolation, punctuated with sequences of hyper-realistic symbolism. Hiam Abbass, Manal Khader and Raïa Haïdar are each fascinating to watch, and deeply eloquent as they inhabit three unforgettable characters.
Also a selection of the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival.
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