The Kite (2003)
- Original title
- Le cerf-volant
- Directed by
- Randa Chahal Sabag
- Genre
- drama film, melodrama
- Country
- Lebanon, France
- Runtime
- 1h 20m
- Rating
- 5.4 of 10 from 15 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A 15-year-old Lebanese girl from a Druze community is forced to marry her cousin who lives on the other side of the Israeli border. She finds herself falling in love with an Israeli soldier, creating a forbidden romance that crosses political and cultural divides.
bittersweetpoignanttenseromanticslow-burnmelancholicvisually lushintimate
What happens
The Kite (French: Le Cerf-volant, Levantine Arabic: طيّارة من ورق ṭiyyāra min waraʔ) is a 2003 Lebanese film by the director Randa Chahal Sabag. It tells the story of a 15-year-old Lebanese girl, from a Druze community, who is forced to marry her cousin across the Israeli border, but finds herself in love with an Israeli soldier. Le Cerf-volant was Sabag's most commercially and critically successful movie, and her last; she died in 2008. The film was Lebanon's official submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 76th Academy Awards. Although it never received a theatrical release in the United States, the film was released to DVD in 2009 by First Run Features. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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