In a Beirut shattered by the Lebanese civil war, Omar moves from one neighborhood to another, his rifle slung over his shoulder, as if crossing a city whose outlines he no longer recognizes. A militiaman by circumstance as much as by lack of alternatives, he navigates a daily life where violence has become the norm and every street corner may turn into a shifting front line. One day he meets Soraya, a journalist determined to document the conflict. She watches Omar with a mixture of distance and compassion, searching in his gestures and silences for traces of a stolen youth. With her camera and her questions, she tries to make sense of the chaos swallowing the country, only to discover that the war resists any attempt at clarity. Caught in this turmoil is Aïda, a fragile young woman carried along by men, factions, and illusions. She clings to Omar as if he were a lifeline, hoping for a protection he's no longer sure he can provide. Her fate unfolds in the cracks of the conflict, where emotions struggle to survive. Gradually, their paths cross, drift apart, and collide. In the ruins of a fractured nation, each fights a personal "small war" - the wars of fears, desires, convictions, and impossible choices. And while the greater war continues to crush everything around them, they still strive, however desperately, to hold on to a fragment of humanity.
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Pemeran
Soraya Khoury
Soraya
Nabil Ismaïl
Nabil
Roger Hawa
Talal
Reda Khoury
La mère de Talal
Youssef Housni
L'oncle de Soraya
Rifaat Tarabay
Selim
Mungkin Anda Juga Suka
Sniper. The White Raven
Beasts of No Nation
The Yellow Birds
Camp X-Ray
Valley of Tears
War Sailor
Das Boot
X Company
Deadline Gallipoli
The Book of Negroes
The Hollow Crown
World on Fire
1864
Rebellion
Lost Identity
Sunshine
All the Queen's Men
The Oval
Beauty in Black
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Stranger Things
Snowfall
The Boys
Komentar
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This is indisputably a film of interest. Indeed Maroun Bagdadi courageously undertakes to shoot this sincere movie in the middle of the bloody civil war that rages out in his motherland, Lebanon. And his stance is all the more commendable as it is far from an easy one : isn't his approach to criticize and denounce those among his compatriots who have started this horrible conflict out of sheer self-interest and cynicism ? The trouble is that "Petites Guerres" has not bloomed into a Lebanese "I accuse" but has resulted in a boring,muddled ghost of a movie. I tried very hard to understand, held on bravely but I must confess that I figured out neither the motivations nor the behaviors of the ectoplasm's characters. It may simply be because I am French and I don't have all the clues or isn't it because Bagdadi aimed too complacently at being arty ? Whatever the case may be, I didn't like the confused story, the opaque characters and the brooding actors. And I just hate having to admit it.is
