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West Beyrouth (À l'abri les enfants)

  • 1998
  • PG-13
  • 1h 45min
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7.6/10
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West Beyrouth (À l'abri les enfants) (1998)
ComediaDramaGuerraRomance

En 1975 en Beirut, el adolescente Tarek filma el inicio de la guerra civil con su amigo Omar. Inicialmente fascinante, la violencia se torna trágica.En 1975 en Beirut, el adolescente Tarek filma el inicio de la guerra civil con su amigo Omar. Inicialmente fascinante, la violencia se torna trágica.En 1975 en Beirut, el adolescente Tarek filma el inicio de la guerra civil con su amigo Omar. Inicialmente fascinante, la violencia se torna trágica.

  • Dirección
    • Ziad Doueiri
  • Guionista
    • Ziad Doueiri
  • Elenco
    • Rami Doueiri
    • Naamar Sahli
    • Mohamad Chamas
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  • CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
    7.6/10
    5.1 k
    TU CALIFICACIÓN
    • Dirección
      • Ziad Doueiri
    • Guionista
      • Ziad Doueiri
    • Elenco
      • Rami Doueiri
      • Naamar Sahli
      • Mohamad Chamas
    • 53Opiniones de los usuarios
    • 14Opiniones de los críticos
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    • Premios
      • 8 premios ganados y 3 nominaciones en total

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    Rami Doueiri
    • Tarek Noueri
    Naamar Sahli
    Mohamad Chamas
    • Omar
    Rola Al Amin
    • May
    Carmen Lebbos
    • Hala Noueri - Tarek's mother
    • (as Carmen Loubbos)
    Joseph Bou Nassar
    • Riad Noueri - Tarek' father
    • (as Joseph Nassar)
    Liliane Nemri
    • Neighbor
    • (as Liliane Nemry)
    Leïla Karam
    • Oum Walid - the madame
    • (as Leila Karam)
    Mahmoud Mabsout
    • Hassan - the baker
    Hassan Farhat
    • Roadblock Militiaman
    Fadi Abou Khalil
    • Bakery Militiaman
    • (as Fadi Abi Samra)
    Fadi Abi Samra
    • Bakery militiaman
    Abla Khoury
    Aida Sabra
    • School Principal
    • (sin créditos)
    • Dirección
      • Ziad Doueiri
    • Guionista
      • Ziad Doueiri
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    10Hani

    Very true experience of the Lebanese civil war.

    West Beiruth is an excellent film. It reveals the true image of the civil war in Lebanon, through the eyes and adventures of two young friends, on the way to their adulthood. Experiencing love, friendship, a split society, and the horrors of war. West Beiruth is not a high budget movie, but it is very good in Directing, cinematography, script and acting. I would very much recommend it to everybody. It is a must see.
    ametaphysicalshark

    A tender, honest, visually enthralling look at Beirut in 1975 through the eyes of adventurous teens

    Ziad Doueiri, whose credentials as a cameraman include "Pulp Fiction" and "Jackie Brown", crafts one of the most memorable directorial debuts of the 90's in this coming of age tale set in Beirut in 1975 after the civil war breaks out. The film is a remarkably realistic (and obviously autobiographical) portrayal of a Beirut at the time as well as the numerous social and religious rifts in Lebanese culture, but is mostly focused on the experiences of three teenagers, Tarek (the main character, played by the director's brother Rami), Omar (his friend), and May, a Christian girl who recently moved to Beirut.

    That is what makes this film completely unique among those centered on Middle Eastern political and relgious issues, that it uses three young characters who are just beginning to explore life and sex to look at the issues that keep Lebanon so fractured to this day. It's through their relatively innocent eyes that much of the ugliness of war is portrayed in the film, and the scenes with them are far more affecting than those with Tarek's parents or any of the other supporting characters simply because Doueiri expertly captures the initial playfulness of their movement through the city and how naive their view of war is, only for them to slowly realize how serious the situation is (at one point Omar and Tarek join in a rally without knowing the implications of what they were calling for, only for the rally to be attacked by militants. The group's innocence is completely lost in a remarkable scene where the three attempt to get a Super 8 film developed only to come across a group of fervent Islamist militants, who capture them and are literally seconds away from discovering the cross May wears around her neck, the equivalent of a death sentence at the time, before Omar talks them into releasing the three. Doueiri claims this incident actually occurred.

    Doueiri's style is loose and liberated, obviously influenced by the French New Wave and featuring excellent use of hand-held camera. Anyone expecting a concise, tight narrative will be disappointed, as "West Beyrouth" (the title is a reflection of how frequently and interchangeably French and English are used in Lebanon in place of Arabic) is a loosely-knit, episodic sort of film which suits the nature of its story very well.

    What is really refreshing about this film is that it has absolutely no political agenda to push, it is purely about the characters and about how normal citizens are affected by this sort of guerrilla warfare. The film is remarkably human in its approach and execution, never attempting to be a tear-jerker and always maintaining a sense of humor (not one always well-captured by the English subtitles, which are otherwise serviceable), which only makes the drama seem more real when it does occur, not that much of this film is fiction. An outstanding debut from a gifted director.

    9/10
    8the red duchess

    Exhilarating and poignant, as the teen movie gives onto the war film.

    When making a film about divisive national conflicts, a familiar device is to frame the historical subject matter in a rites-of-passage narrative. This device produces a number of effects - a contrast between life as the audience knows it, and a historical reality they do not; by following a child's awakening, growing experience and knowledge of the world, it can reveal history and war as a lived experience, and not as something isolated in a textbook; it can show the progress of history as a kind of fall from innocence, as if any child's entering adulthood forces him to acknowledge shocking truths that are merely intensified in a war situation.

    'West Beirut' tells the tale of Tarek, a gawky, humungously hootered smart aleck and class clown whom we first see disrupting assembly by blaring Lebanese over a megaphone during 'La Marseillaise'. For some reason, his liberal-left parents have sent him to a French school - this is the first historical nuance the viewer is expected to pick up on: if s/he doesn't, tough.

    These opening sequences, messing about with his cousin Omar at school, furtively smoking and staring at attractive relatives, winding up obese neighbours, have something of the freewheeling joy found in a contemporaneous film about adolescence ('West Beirut' is set in 1975), Louis Malle's 'Murmur of the Heart'.

    Except, even at this stage, everything is fraught, riven by division - the two languages Tarek speaks, the different religions among whom he co-exists; the different levels of space he inhabits. When he is punished and thrown out of class for disrupting the anthem, he witnesses the beginning of war, the shooting of the passengers on a bus. Again, we are expected to know which side is which, what they're fighting for etc. The main thing is, Tharek's expulsion and the beginning of the war seem to be intimately mixed, almost as if his transgression caused it; and so beings a pattern that shapes the film.

    Everything you would expect from a rites-of-passage film is here, but tainted by the war environment - Tarek's first girlfriend is a Christian, making him aware of religious bigotry; his accidental visit to a brothel, his first sexual experience, brings alive to him the division of his city - it's always the subculture that suffers in situations like this. 1970s Lebanon is surprisingly Westernised and liberal, but a general retrenchment occurs, and Omar is expected to go to Mosque. It suddenly becomes dangerous to know the 'wrong' people, and the pressure of this division extends beyond friends into the family itself, between a pride that refuses to be bullied (Tarek's father), and a fear that just wants to get out (his mother).

    One of the great things about this film is the way it brings you into a war situation - like us, the characters don't really know what's happening, they have no context - this is random, present-tense, frightening, where the morning cock crow is replaced by bombs as an alarm clock; where military 'protection' is no different from gangsterism. Doueiri's handheld style, used initially to heighten the vividness of youth, can easily adapt to the urgency of war, flitting between the two. The film never betrays either, never suggests childish games are somehow less important.

    Omar is a young filmmaker, filming his friends and the city around him. One subplot centres around a film developer on the other side of the city border. A recurrent motif is of looking, being a voyeur, getting to know the world through accessing and interpreting visual information. This may be a biographical portrait of the director as a Young Artist. But, in its modest way, 'West Beirut' performs the same function as Nabokov's 'Speak Memory', using memory, nostalgia, autobiography, not as a comfy escape, but as an artistic weapon against a totalitarian present.
    7ian_harris

    Super movie, very "edutaining"

    Well you certainly don't become an expert on Late 20th century Lebanese politics by watching this movie. But for those of us with an outside interest and a yawning gap of understanding and knowledge, this movie is superb "edutainment". It both educates and entertains.

    The transition of the civil war through the eyes of these youngsters, as the movie goes on is moving. It starts off more or less as an adventure. It takes time to dawn on the characters that the civil war is tearing their lives apart.

    The family debates about whether to stay or go are very moving. We know many people in the Lebanese community here in the UK, many of them (or their parents) must have gone through those heart-wrenching decisions back then.

    The "romance" between the Muslim boy(s) and the Christian girl is also moving. It avoids the trap of descending into a Levantine Romeo & Juliet, however it seems a shame that the girl seems to just drift out of the story-line just at the point that we are all falling in love with her!

    See it, it will be worth it.
    9NACCOULA

    I recommend this to everyone and anyone

    Right from the get go, you get immersed in West Beirut, especially if you grew up in this area of the world. From the fighter jets flying overhead, to the gun-totting militiamen you feel completely entangeled and immersed in the action and emotions, well perhaps not if you are an American. But worry not, the movie is simple to follow and you, sooner rather than latter, associate with the characters and the story being told: there is a bit of history (although a little inaccurate), lots of character building (Tarek did such and excellent job portraying a careless but yet affected youth) and a lot of drama especially from Tarek's parents who display some world class acting. The music was also right on track when it came to enhancing the story, whether the mood was going up, down, or portraying stillness.

    For his first effort the Director (Ziad Doueiri) does a marvelous job at displaying his handy camera work and his craftsmanship in bringing out a rather complex story in a simple and close-to-the-heart way. It is true that this first effort lacked the polish of experience and confused some a bit (I was asked a lot of questions after the movie by my American friends) but its shortcomings are far outweighed by its style and class. I still do recommend this movie to all audiences, after all, how many Lebanese movies do manage to make it to the American market? None before, and probably none in a long time to follow, unless Mr. Doueiri is working on another great film. Is he? (I will keep my fingers crossed and tied)

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    • Trivia
      'Mohammad Chamas' who played Omar in the movie was discovered by accident. At one time while the crew was preparing the set and not having found an actor to play Omar, Mohammed was passing by and he had a fight with one of the crew members. The director noticed him and immediately asked him to play the character. After having lived in an orphanage most of his life, becoming a lead in a motion picture was an important change of pace.
    • Errores
      On 13 April 1975, while class is in session, Tarek watches the ambush of the bus from the balcony of his school in Christian-dominated East Beirut. 13 April 1975 was a Sunday. Schools in East Beirut are closed on Sundays.
    • Conexiones
      References Mushukunin-betsuchô (1963)
    • Bandas sonoras
      Chant Byzantin Alleluia
      by Soeur Marie Keyrouz

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    • Fecha de lanzamiento
      • 30 de octubre de 1998 (Noruega)
    • Países de origen
      • Francia
      • Noruega
      • Líbano
      • Bélgica
    • Sitio oficial
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    • Idiomas
      • Árabe
      • Francés
    • También se conoce como
      • West Beirut
    • Locaciones de filmación
      • Beirut, Líbano
    • Productoras
      • 3B Productions
      • ACCI
      • Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)
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      • USD 800,000 (estimado)
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    • Tiempo de ejecución
      1 hora 45 minutos
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      • Color
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      • Dolby
    • Relación de aspecto
      • 1.85 : 1

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