Prêt-à-Porter
Imm Ali by Dima el-Horr. Lebanon/France, 2001, 25 min, Beta
SP US première
When the newly installed neon sign of Imm Ali's ready-to-wear
boutique goes out in the middle of the night, speculations abound
in the small village of the recently liberated southern tip of Lebanon.
Visually eloquent, the film is the first to use the medium of fiction
to capture how everyday folks negotiate the quotidian after the
withdrawal of the Israeli army and the covert hegemony of Hizbollah.
In Arabic with English subtitles.