« إنسوا كل ما شاهدتموه من أفلام لبنانية، وشاهدوا هذا الفيلم! ».. بهذه الكلمات تتركنا المخرجة فرح الهاشم قبل بدء عرض فيلمها (كما تصنفه) « ترويقة في بيروت ». جملة تحملها مسؤولية تجاه المشاهد، وتجاه المدينة، وتجاه السينما اللبنانية التي نسفتها بجملة واحدة، وتجاه المخرج الراحل مارون بغدادي الذي تهديه الفيلم في البداية. وفي المقابل تشعرك بأنك ستشاهد الفيلم الذي سيقلب موازين السينما اللبنانية في نظرك، ويريك بيروت، كما تقول هي، في شكل لم تره من قبل. فتتحمس لما تعتقد أنك ستراه، وتتأهب لأكثر من ساعة متعة.
The Story of Breakfast in Beirut ?
The story of Sarah revolves around two major parts in her life, a relationship with a city that came to her in a love relationship with a man name ziad.
Beirut. The city. has always suffered from a continuous struggle for finding stability and some how that part of Beirut has been contagious enough to affect its people– so everybody living in Beirut is striving to find that stability, but somehow it keeps getting lost.
In the middle of The Nightlife rush in Gemmayzeh, the red lights in Monot, The Busy bistros and cafes in Hamra street, the protests and political outbursts, gas prices inflation and electivity cut outs, Sarah escaped it.
She paused her life in Beirut. She Did not want to revive it again. She arrived to New York, to a big and crowded city that she can easily get lost in. she can easily erase everything and start from scratch.
True Story ?
Breakfast in Beirut is a series of memories from an inspired life story about a young woman who lost the only person that she found comfort and love with.
She was attached to him. he brought a certain magic to her life with his smile. Even though Beirut in 2005 – 2009 ‘s political crisis was a never ending crisis, but this young woman found Beirut to be the land of Dreams, the safest place on earth with her eternal love to him.
Sarah : Journalism and Beirut
Sarah is a journalist; Beirut ‘s love is scattered among words she types everyday on her typewriter or in the middle of the spilled ink on papers and photographs…
She captures bits and pieces of those memories and a magical Beirut when she snaps a photograph through her camera.
She always asked herself whether she was born to be a journalist or it happened by chance ?
« If i will be a journalist for the rest of my life, then who is going to tell my story ?. »
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Breakfast in Beirut sounds like a fairy tale. Is it a book or a movie or both ?
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it is a movie but to be sure maybe we have to ask the artist who did the script, it’s really poetic you are right
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Thank you so much for the response.
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