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Merely a Smell (2007)
Directed by Maher Abi Samra
· 10m
In four long takes, like a haiku in black and white, we enter the rubble of a country following the 2006 Israeli-Lebanese conflict. Without ever looking death in the face, the absence of life shows itself over the course of clues appearing in the no man’s land of a battered Beirut. In silent, frozen time, the film subtly refers to the spectator’s imagination in alluding to death.
Crew
- Director
- Maher Abi Samra
- Writer
- Maher Abi Samra
- Producer
- Serge Lalou, Maher Abi Samra
Details
- Release date
- 2007-09-14
- Runtime
- 10m
- Original language
- AR
- Spoken languages
- Arabic
- Countries
- France, Lebanon
- Production
- Les Films d'Ici