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L'Insulte (2017)

Drama | 113 minutes
3,49 169 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 113 minuten

Alternative titles: The Insult / قضية رقم ٢٣

Country: France / Cyprus / Belgium / Lebanon / United States

Directed by: Ziad Doueiri

Stars: Adel Karam, Christine Choueiri and Kamel El Basha

IMDb score: 7,6 (18.569)

Releasedate: 14 September 2017

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L'Insulte plot

"Words change everything."

Toni, a Lebanese Christian, waters the plants on his balcony. The water unintentionally drips on the head of Yasser, a Palestinian foreman at a nearby construction site. A fierce quarrel ensues. Toni insults Yasser, whereupon Yasser causes a few broken ribs in Toni with his fist. Toni decides to sue Yasser for that. This leads to a long process in which Palestinians and Lebanese Christians clash with each other.

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Fisico (moderator films)

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L'Insulte is a strong Middle Eastern drama that strongly reminded me of the other strong [url=https://www.moviemeter.nl/film/74599]Jodaeiye Nader az Simin - A Separation (2011) [/ url] from Iran. In this film, too, a civil dispute turns into a court case that gets out of hand in which no party has anything to gain. There are only losers to be found and it is very difficult to stop the legal fast train, even if one wanted to.

What I experienced as an extra asset is that extra attention was paid to ethnic diversity in Beirut, Lebanon. Christians, Palestinian (refugee) Muslims and other groups try to live together, but the devastating past of war and massacres means that it is not easy to forget, let alone forgive. This suppressed hatred is latent in society and later erupts completely when politicians also get involved.

The main characters do a great job and are believable. And both lawyers were also strong. At first glance, it is clear whose sympathy one can count on, but you feel on your wet toe that the film might have given a plot twist or explanation about the behavior of the other party. The narrative structure is therefore clever and benefits the story completely. The confrontation in which Yasser allows himself to be beaten by Toni after provocation created a strong moral insight. A film to definitely think about!

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eRCee

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When you make a political film, the line between blatant pamphlet and artistic product is even thinner than with a social film. That quickly goes wrong, also with L'insulte. The basic idea is actually pretty good, but the execution a lot less so. Everything comes across as very scripted; the dialogues, the characters and how they develop, the somewhat implausible plot. What doesn't help is that Toni's alpha monkey behavior is so far that it's already very difficult to empathize. And then Doueiri also mixes in that the lawyers are related; a totally unnecessary entanglement that only tries to aim extra at the sentiment. The film sometimes works quite well in that respect, I have done that more often, but on closer inspection it is too cheap. There are actually no moments that are not in the service of the tightly laid out whole. L'insulte is therefore a film in the category "one saws planks from thick wood".

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A minor incident between a Lebanese Christian and a Palestinian immigrant escalates into a national crisis. The underlying conflicts between population groups, the scars of the war past and the more recent massacres are coming to the surface. Historical incidents such as Black September (1970) and the Massacre of Damour (1976) are cited. Incendiary speeches and waving the Lebanon cedar

You may wonder what statement the title refers to. Yasser calls Toni a stupid prick, but Toni then insults Yasser's entire people by shouting that Sharon should have wiped them out. There are some twists and turns, like the meeting with the president, but it raises important questions about issues that have been dragging on for decades, with a tentative effort at rapprochement and understanding in both directions.

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