A plaque and a palm tree weren’t enough to mark the swagger and star power of Burt Reynolds.
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Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentLebanese multihyphenate Nadine Labaki’s most recent directorial effort, the Oscar-nominated “Capernaum,” shed light on Beirut’s desperation before her city was blasted last year by one of the biggest non-nuclear explosions ever recorded.
She is in Venice this year as an actor in Mounia Akl’s first feature “Costa Brava, Lebanon,” which against all odds started shooting two months after the blast, also defying the pandemic and Lebanon’s economic
.A plaque and a palm tree weren’t enough to mark the swagger and star power of Burt Reynolds.
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Mounia Akl’s feature debut, “Costa Brava, Lebanon” comfortably occupies a space between “Beasts of the Southern Wild” from “Honeyland”: Each movie deals with environmental dilemmas, ranging from climate change to the loss of biodiversity, but in their own ways and their own approaches. “Honeyland” takes the narrative nonfiction tack, chronicling the travails of a Macedonian beekeeper; “Beasts of the Southern Wild” grieves Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath with magical realism.
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Crieff. Ward (22) was found with ecstasy in powder, tablet and liquid form and admitted he had been selling the class A drug for several months.Perth Sheriff Court was told that the haul of powdered ecstasy found at his flat in Colville House had a potential street value of £52,000.
Jessica Kiang “Where will we run away to this time?” asks Soraya Bakri (Nadine Labaki) of her husband Walid (Saleh Bakri), partly joking but mostly not, when what looks like all the trash in Beirut appears on their rural hideaway’s doorstep. Mounia Akl’s “Costa Brava, Lebanon,” is mostly a bittersweet dramedy built from an intimate, sprightly understanding of internal family dynamics, but it is fringed with the implicit melancholy of Soraya’s question.
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Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentLebanese director Mounia Akl’s long-gestating first feature, “Costa Brava, Lebanon,” which screens in Venice Horizons, is about her relationship with Beirut and Lebanon “and the complexity of this love/hate relationship that is becoming more and more complicated as our country is falling apart,” she says.The country’s complications came literally crashing into the pic’s production when Beirut, on Aug.