The Insult (2017)
- Original title
- L'Insulte
- Directed by
- Ziad Doueiri
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- Lebanon, France
- Runtime
- 1h 52m
- Rated
- 12
- Rating
- 7.5 of 10 from 477 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 dispute between a Lebanese Christian mechanic and a Palestinian foreman escalates into a high-profile court case. Their personal conflict exposes deep political fractures in Lebanon.
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What happens
The Insult (Arabic: قضية رقم ٢٣, romanized: Qadiyya raqm 23, lit. 'Case No. 23', French: L'insulte) is a 2017 Lebanese legal drama film directed by Ziad Doueiri and co-written by Doueiri and Joelle Touma. It was screened in the main competition section of the 74th Venice International Film Festival. At Venice, Kamel El Basha won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor. It was selected as the Lebanese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film and was nominated for the Oscar at the 90th Academy Awards. The film tells the story of two men: Tony George Hanna (Adel Karam), a Lebanese Christian mechanic, and Yasser Salameh (Kamel El Basha), a Palestinian foreman, who are embroiled in a court case which causes political upheaval in an already unstable country. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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