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Beirut

  • 20182018
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Jon Hamm and Rosamund Pike in Beirut (2018)
Caught in the crossfires of civil war, CIA operatives must send a former U.S. diplomat to negotiate for the life of a friend he left behind.
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Caught in the crossfires of civil war, CIA operatives must send a former U.S. diplomat to negotiate for the life of a friend he left behind.Caught in the crossfires of civil war, CIA operatives must send a former U.S. diplomat to negotiate for the life of a friend he left behind.Caught in the crossfires of civil war, CIA operatives must send a former U.S. diplomat to negotiate for the life of a friend he left behind.
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    Jon Hamm
    Jon Hamm
    • Mason Skiles
    Jay Potter
    Jay Potter
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    Khalid Benchagra
    • Nadim
    • (as Khalid Benchegra)
    Ania Josse
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    Angus John Crisford Pritchard-Gordon
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    Yoav Sadian
    • Karim (13 Years Old)
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    Leïla Bekhti
    Leïla Bekhti
    • Nadia Skiles
    Kate Fleetwood
    Kate Fleetwood
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    Mark Pellegrino
    Mark Pellegrino
    • Cal Riley
    Abdesselam Bounouacha
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    • (as Abdesselam Abounouacha)
    Colin Stinton
    Colin Stinton
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    Mustapha Touki
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    Youssef El Hibaqui
    • Gunman
    • (as Youssef El Hibaoui)
    Aziz Attougui
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    Hichame Ouraqa
    • Abu Rajal
    • (as Hicham Ouraqa)
    Charley Broderick
    • Boston Cop
    • (as Charles Broderick)
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      The city of Tangier in Morocco proved to be especially suitable as a stand-in for Beirut because of a quirky chapter in the city's recent history. "Tangier had a building boom ten years ago and it all came from drug money," producer Monica Levinson explained. "When the government figured that out, they immediately put a stop to the construction, so you have a ton of buildings in Tangier that are just half-built shells. The government didn't want squatters to dwell in these buildings so they took sledge hammers and bulldozers and reduced the buildings to rubble. It was incredible to find all of that existing in Tangier."
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      Alice returns to an apartment in which Cal has been staying that is said to be in a very unsafe area of the city. It is not realistic that a CIA operative in Beirut with responsibilities for supervising all Middle East operations would be domiciled in a very unsafe sector of any city in which his station was located.
    • Quotes

      Mason Skiles: You're not hallucinating. It's me Mason.

      Mason Skiles: [to sandy] I don't want to be anywhere near this murdering fuck

      [to Abu Rajal in Arabic]

      Mason Skiles: Today is you're lucky night... YOU SON OF A WHORE!

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    Interesting and grim film with tight editing , awesome performance , complex intrigue with twists and turns
    In 1972, Mason Skiles (Jom Hamm) is a U.S. diplomat in Lebanon living in Beirut with his Lebanese wife, Nadia (Leika Bekhti) . They have recently started caring for Karim, a 13-year-old Palestinian boy who claims he is without a family , but he has actually a brother who has been linked to the 1972 Munich massacre. While hosting a party , Skiles is confronted by his friend, CIA analyst Cal Riley (Mark Pellegrino) , who wants to question Karim . Then the party is attacked by Karim's brother , Rami, and there takes place an ensuing gunfight with dramatic consequences . Ten years later , Skiles has become an alcoholic and is working as a self-employed labor arbitrator in New England . While arbitrating a labor issue between particularly intransigent parties and struggling to keep his small firm afloat , he is approached by Sully (Douglas Hodge) , an old client, on behalf of the U.S. government . Beirut: 1982 there Skile meets some CIA officers : Sandy Crowder (Rosamund Pike) , Gary Ruzak (Shea Whigham) and Donald Gaines (Dean Norris) to carry out a risked mission . The events developed in this film led to the known in Lebanon as "the invasion" , it began on 6 June 1982, when the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) invaded southern Lebanon , after repeated attacks and counter-attacks between the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) operating in southern Lebanon and the IDF that had caused civilian casualties on both sides of the border . The military operation was launched after gunmen from Abu Nidal's organization attempted to assassinate Shlomo Argov, Israel's ambassador to the United Kingdom. Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin blamed Abu Nidal's enemy , the PLO, for the incident,and used the incident as a casus belli for the invasion, subsequently , there took place Sabra and Shatila massacre of Palestinians and Lebanese.¨The Paris of the Middle East Was Burning . The Americans want to keep their secrets . The Israelis want to raise the stakes . He only wants to save a life¨.

    Engaging and dark picture , skill montage , magnificent acting , thrills , plot twists , emotion and intense drama . Concerning murky and dark issues , dealing with thorny themes of corruption and betrayal in which our protagonists become involved . Set in Beirut , Lebanon, when it was full of a lot of warlike organitations and militias , especially formed by Drusos , Christians , Maronits , Falangists , Palestinians of PLO , Chii of Hamas , Sunnies , among others . In the movie there is action filled , brief studio character , drama with turns , as well as moving chases . It was originally conceived as a tense as well as thrilling flick based on actual events well written by Tony Gilroy though diverting in an action thriller , at times . Gilroy's fictionalized portrayal of U.S.A, Israeli and PLO -Palestine Liberation Organization- scheming in 1982 Lebanon ultimately proved too hot to handle , resulting in a real Lebanon encroachment . Jon Hamm is pretty well as the former U.S. diplomat caught in the crossfires of civil war, then CIA operatives must send to negotiate for the life of a friend he abandoned . And Rosemund Pike is very good as brave and stubborn CIA agent who helps him to execute his purport to negotiate for the life of a friend he left behind. In addition , a frankly fine support cast , such as Shea Whigham , Mark Pellegrino , Leïla Bekhti , Kate Fleetwood , Larry Pine , Douglas Hodge and Dean Norris.

    It contains an atmospheric and evocative photography by Cinematographer Bjorn Charpentier, this expert cameraman paid homage to the time period chronicled in Beirut by fitting his cameras with vintage lenses, in fact those lenses were built from that era . And shot on location in Rhode Island and Tangier . Being accompanied by a thrilling and stirring musical score by John Debney. The motion picture was competently and splendidly made by US director Brad Anderson , though it had limited success at box-office. Brad Anderson was born in Madison, Connecticut, USA and was graduate of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, and member of the dramatic jury at the Sundance Film Festival . He is a notorious director and producer, known for Next Stop Wonderland (1998) , Session 9 (2001), The machinist (2004) , Transsiberian (2008) , The Call (2013) , Asylum (2014) , among others .
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      • April 11, 2018 (United States)
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