by Allan Fish
(Syria 1972 106m) not on DVD
Aka. Al Makh-du’un
The heartbeat of the earth
d/w Tewfik Saleh novel Ghassan Kanafani ph Bahgat Heidar ed Farin Dib, Saheb Haddad m Solhi El-Wadi
Mohamed Kheir-Halouani (Abou Keïss), Abderrahman Alrahy (Abou Kheizarane), Bazzan Lofti Abou-Gazzala (Assad), Saleh Kholoki (Marouane), Thanaa Debsi (Om Keïss),
One of the biggest stumbling blocks to composing a work like this is to put aside but not entirely dismiss personal taste and familiarity. Where this becomes most difficult is with regard to foreign classics tailored for home audiences. The most obvious example is Bollywood, which western audiences can either embrace or shun, but there are others. Take the often broad comedy employed in Hong Kong action films or the gypsy subculture that forms the heart of several important Yugoslav films from Petrovic to Kusturica. Then there’s the biggest blind spot of all, African film, a true appreciation of which requires an immersing into the culture, flavour and aroma of what is, to western eyes, the most unknown of continents. (more…)
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