You have to hand it to people like Eran Kolirin. He’s the film director who in 2007 gave us The Band’s Visit, about an Egyptian military band that by some fluke managed to find itself in a sad, godforsaken Jewish desert town in Israel, whose residents unexpectedly were able to find some tentativ.
Reminiscent of Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s 1997 debut, this documentary hybrid evokes the strange poetry of the downbeat and the ordinary as it follows a grizzled car mechanic at work in Beirut.