A Nuanced Take on Nadine Labaki’s Latest Movie

There have been a wave of cheerleading for Nadine Labaki’s whalla2 la Wein movie in the Lebanese blogosphere, so I was longing for an intelligent but critical take on it.

I finally found it in Lama’s excellent post:

Is Nadine Labaki trying to fool us with form without content? An abstraction without depth? Maybe. But then again so is Lebanon, with its fake politics, democracy and freedom, representing nothing but the desires of the external forces that move them. Nadine’s film may be a little shallow, but then again so are our differences.

Check it out..