Lightcube Film Society presents "Once Upon a Time in Beirut" film screening at Zizo K 18, 22 Connaught Circus, Opp PVR Plaza Cinema, Connaught Place > 7pm to 8:44pm on 9th December 2014

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Time : 7:00 am - 8:44 pm Add to Calendar 09-12-2014 19:00:00 09-12-2014 20:44:00 68 Lightcube Film Society presents "Once Upon a Time in Beirut" film screening Event Page : http://goo.gl/3420HC Zizo K 18, 22 Connaught Circus, Opp PVR Plaza Cinema, Connaught Place, New Delhi - 110001 DD/MM/YYYY

Entry : Free, But registrations required, Register at:
Contact : 070425 5444 | 7838340196
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Venue : Zizo K 18, 22 Connaught Circus, Opp PVR Plaza Cinema, Connaught Place, New Delhi - 110001

Venue Info : zizo.in | Map | Rajiv Chowk Metro Station (Yellow Line and Blue Line)

Area : Connaught Place (CP)

Event Description : Lightcube Film Society presents "Once Upon a Time in Beirut" film screening.

Saab’s body-of-work reimagines Beirut the city as a character, material and decaying, struggling to remain alive; she has her own history, her own myths, her own fantasies, and like everyone else who has ever lived, her life is nothing but a continuous resistance against oblivion. In Saab’s later What’s Going On (2009), the city (a girl, a metaphor for Beirut itself) performs her final dance around the ancient streets and terraces of Beirut, even as her lover struggles to preserve her memory in the pages of a book, therefore making her permanent and eternal, an object of history; in Once Upon a Time in Beirut, the old film-collector performs the same function. He saves the images of Beirut from the siege of a future that threatens to overrun it with great cruelty and callousness – it is nothing but a love story, and like all of Saab’s work, whether in photography or film, looks at Beirut through the eyes of a poet, hopeful but driven mad by one’s own romance and nostalgia. (Martin Brodsky)

Language : Lebanese with English Subtitles 

Duration : 108 min.

Year : 1998

Director : Jocelyn Saab

Cast : Emile Accar, Pierre Chamassian, Abou El Abed etc.

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