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Sunduq al-dunyâ (2002)
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Four families live together in an isolated house in the mountains, where conflicts erupt between the generations. full summary | add synopsisAwards:
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A Real Masterpiece moreCast
(Credited cast) | Zuhair Abdulkarim | ... | 3rd Man |
| Caresse Bashar | ... | 2nd Woman |
| Elias Ghannam | ... | 3rd Boy |
| Meerna Ghannam | ... | Fairouza |
| Muhammad Hamad | ... | 2nd Boy |
| Fares Helou | ... | 2nd Man |
| Nihal Khateeb | ... | Kubra |
| Bassam Kousa | ... | The 1st Man |
| Ali Muhammad | ... | Akhdar |
| Amal Omran | ... | 1rst Woman |
| Hala Omran | ... | 3rd Woman |
| Maha Saleh | ... | Khadra |
| Mustafa Sbeih | ... | 1st Boy |
| Rafeeq Subaiee | ... | Akbar |
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Sacrifices (Europe: English title) (France)Coffre de la vie (France)
The Box of Life (International: English title)
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112 min (Cannes Film Festival)Language:
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A surreal depiction of life in a village out of a strikingly beautiful Syrian landscape. Oussama Mohammad's immensely visual representation of love, hate, violence and family relationships is no less than a masterpiece... and I am using this word here without any reservations! While I usually feel more at home with popular cinema, this particular film is among the very few films, and maybe even the only film within the surrealist tradition that made me feel as enthralled as I did when I first saw Bunuel's 1933 masterpiece 'Land without Bread'.
Every single shot in the film is an equivalent to an elaborate canvas which brings forwards the harsh yet captivating detailed textures of life and culture in a timeless small Arab peasant village, all set to the background of the Syrian mountain region facing the Mediterranean. If it wasn't for traditional anti-Arab bias in Film Festival circles, this film would have been appreciated as one of the most important cinematic events at least over the last ten years.