The documentary follows the writer from his boyhood in the 1930s through his service during World War II and throughout his tumultuous literary, journalistic and personal life.
The film does not make the point that immediately strikes any politically conscious viewer: such a serious investigation into an urgent social crisis could never happen today.
A documentary about young men who can’t escape Lebanon’s economic and political crisis contrasts sharply with one about an artist who turns away from social engagement to mull “how we organize our consciousness.”
<i>We Are Not Ghouls</i> is a valuable documenting of the violation of basic democratic rights that US authorities inflicted on its detainees during the “war on terror.”
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