Murmures

Eerie and slow, this film pulls all the emptiness out of Lebanon during 1980 and dumps it into your heart. The white, blue and black colour palette makes this feel like a ghost movie. However, the characters are opaque and alive, whilst the cities dead, just swaying in the background bleached white. Beautiful poetic narration is interjected between scenes and provides a romantic yet realistic insight into the countries past, present and future. The film does not ask for your sympathy like a charity advert, but just makes you fall in love with Lebanon and its people who's personalities relish through the lens of Baghdadi. There are some moments which felt a bit too slow, but they did serve a purpose. I wish more people in the west would see this film because it truly humanises arabs and arab suffering in a time where we are seen as throwaways who deserve less then an animal treatment.