2020 ‘Sous le ciel d'Alice’ Directed by Chloé Mazlo
In the fifties, young Alice leaves her natal Swiss mountains for the sunny and vibrant shores of Beirut. She falls madly in love with Joseph, a quirky astrophysicist intent on sending the first Lebanese national into space. Alice quickly fits in among his relatives, but after years of bliss, the civil war threatens their Garden of Eden.
Alba Rohrwacher Wajdi Mouawad Isabelle Zighondi Mariah Tannoury Jade Breidi Odette Makhlouf Hany Tamba Ziad Jallad John Chelhot Greta Zighondi Chloé Zighondi Charbel Kamel Cécile Moubarak Maroun Moubarak Ishac Diwan Abou Chabké Joëlle Mayssaloun Nassar Nadine Naous Nadim Bahsoun Robert Mazlo Bernard Boulad Jean-François Baalbaky Elias Wehaibé Fabrice Colson Darina Al Joundi
Lübnan Semaları, Alices Welt, Bajo los cielos del Líbano, I cieli di Alice, 앨리스의 하늘 아래, O Céu de Alice, Небо Ливана, Himmel över Libanon, 不一样的天空
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“Podríamos haber seguido viviendo, creando, a nuestra manera, a pesar de todo, momentos mágicos”
Tremenda sorpresa la que me lleve con esta propuesta de lo más artística y tierna en Mubi, diría que es una cinta de lo más completa a moverse por diferentes géneros y situaciones que podrían haberse planteado de una forma muy estándar por la simpleza de su narrativa, sin embargo y para bien Skies of Lebanon fue comandada por una directora muy creativa y con ideas contundentes de cómo montar una escena de una manera muy única.
El realismo mágico se hace presente al ilustrar situaciones muy terrenales y controversiales como los conflictos civiles armados con una atmósfera muy abrazadora, los colores empleados, por sobre todo…
Filmmaker Chloé Mazlo, without excess or stridency, shows the Lebanese Civil War from the private sphere, a perspective that is not often seen. Through a love story and the experiences of a family, the director shows the uncertainty, the fear, and the suffering of those who were caught in the middle of the conflict. Sous le ciel d'Alice is a delicate, melancholic and very personal work about love and hope as well as a reflection on the importance of the family unit and what truly constitutes a home in the broadest sense of the concept. Although I feel that it needed some balance between its visual resources and its metaphors are slightly obvious, Mazlo's work is a more than acceptable debut, an intimate plea in favor of peace.
No le había dado bola a esta peli solo por su título y como la están por sacar de Mubi pronto decidí mirarla. Y menos mal que lo hice porque fue una maravilla.
Empieza re linda contandonos cómo Alice viaja a Beirut para trabajar como niñera en un claro intento por cortar sus raices suecas. A este relato se lo complementa con flashbacks animados y fondos artísticos que hacen a la peli mas bonita incluso. Pronto conoce a Joseph, un astrofísico del que se enamora y con quien termina formando una familia y un hogar. Así vemos cómo pasa el tiempo y la dicha que encuentra en este lugar hasta que empiezan los conflictos de la guerra civil y todo…
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A really effecting, heart-breaking and beautifully made film, portraying the Civil War in Lebanon through the eyes of a regular family. Decking her film in an array of soft pastel colours reminiscent of Wes Anderson, director Chloé Mazlo employs a startling mix of cinematic techniques in order to tell this story: an animated sequence near the start portrays Alice (Alba Rohrwacher) growing up Switzerland; her exciting coming-of-age in Lebanon is accompanied by the use of painted backdrops and obvious rear projection, imbuing these scenes with a sort of Classic Hollywood sheen; meanwhile, stop-motion camera trickery is employed to give us a whistle-stop tour of her happy pre-war family life in Lebanon with husband Joseph (Wajdi Mouawad) and his…
Chloe Mazio usa de muitas cores, alegorias e sua história para contar as mudanças e transformações sociais e políticas do Líbano. Tudo é apresentado com muita sutileza e sensibilidade. Mesmo faltando o aprofundamento de algumas histórias o resultado final é satisfatório.
É quase um conto de fadas, e como tal tem seus dramas, suas sombras e fagulhas de esperança. Talvez por isso chegamo ao final com um sorriso nos lábios.
Society has degraded since we gave up aggressively scribbling with our crayons and started colouring neatly into mandalas. Some good old-fashioned communication would have helped this painfully vanilla couple and my 92 minutes of time. Alba Rohrwacher has never looked better, and the stop motion animation is so charming, but it can't save itself from its grating central characters and favouring of unique artistic expression over emotional depth.
Alice (Alba Rohrwacher), una chica sueca decide cambiar su vida y viaja a Líbano para trabajar como niñera. Después de un tiempo conoce a Joseph, un astrofísico con quien formará una familia. Todo parece perfecto hasta que la guerra civil libanesa estalla.
La ópera prima de la directora francesa Chloé Mazlo es una especie de cuento porque utiliza la animación tradicional como elemento narrativo de soporte, hay stop motion y pixilación.
Funciona para aligerar la violencia y la tragedia, pero también le afecta porque resta seriedad al conflicto. Eso y su puesta en escena como si de una obra de teatro infantil se tratara hacen de Bajo los cielos del Líbano una película algo difícil de tomar en serio.
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This film definitely was an excellent artistic illustration of a country breaking itself apart and the sudden death of an idealistic paradise and how much that affects the people living there. Some of my relatives left Lebanon before the civil war and some after. I could feel their stories in this. Families leaving until things get better, families staying just to wait it out, and families that leave to never return.
In 1975, Lebanon's status of "Switzerland of the Middle East" (no, the lead's nationality was not randomly chosen) died with the beginning of a Civil War that turned it into a land of broken dreams, including one shared by many physicians working on a promising space program. I obviously wasn't even born at the time, but the many stories recounted by my parents and grandparents made this film - which shows both sides of Lebanon - one I found to be oddly nostalgic. It occasionally suffers from budgetary constraints and eccentric creative decisions I found to be slightly over-the-top, but the end result was a delightful surprise that perfectly works as a scrapbook of Lebanon's unfortunate transformation.
Algunos han cometido el garrafal error de compararla con Amelie, otros el acierto de nombrar a Wes Anderson. A este último es inevitable nombrarlo, puesto que Chloé realiza un error muy frecuente en el director estadounidense, esconder una fría narración en una cálida y naif fotografía. Por muy perfecta que sea tu estética, a nada llegas si no consigues rozar el alma del que te ve con las palabras.
Desde luego que es un ejercicio de dirección muy prometedor, con recursos muy singulares y poco gastados que consiguen enriquecer la experiencia. Distintos detalles históricos y alegorías leves hacen tocar, en bastantes puntos, lo acertado con la punta de los dedos. Pero, para desgracia de todos, no es lo que promete ser. Comienza por los cielos, desde entonces no hace más que precipitarse sin piedad alguna.
Imagine My Life as a Zucchini as a war film.
Finding poetry and charm in the Lebanese civil war (1970s) isn't an easy task, though Chloé Mazlo is able to pull it off with a mix of her talent as an artist and her eye for style.
The magic gets a little diluted in the third act, but this doesn't prevent the movie from tearing your paper mâché heart.
Brilliant. Loved the brief animated segment at the start - this has tons of heart and character work. The visuals are immense, visually striking without feeling like a Wes Anderson or Michel Gondry clone - it's much more idiosyncratic and has plenty of charm to spare.
