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CHENNAI: A compelling work about love, life and loss packaged neatly and executed with brilliance, “Memory Box” competed for the Golden Bear at the recent Berlin International Film Festival. Part of the reason why the movie is so touching is its story and script, which drew inspiration from Lebanese co-director Joana Hadjithomas’ letters and diaries penned during her teens. Made with Khalil Joreige – the duo is known for their range of documentaries, features and performance art – “Memory Box” covers three generations of women from 1980s war-ravaged Beirut to icy Montreal. The writing by the directors is tight and leaves no room for confusion in this back-and-forth narrative. ....
Memory Box stars Rim Turki, Manal Issa, Paloma Vauthier and Clemence Sabbagh, and is set over Christmas in Montreal. A surprise delivery of notebooks, tapes and photos that single mother Maia (Turki) sent to her best friend Liza in the 1980s is quickly consigned to be stored unopened in the basement, but Maia’s curious daughter Alex (Vauthier) begins looking through the keepsakes, which give her a window into her mother’s adolescence The film jumps between past and present as Alex discovers hidden stories about her mother’s hopes and fears as bombs ravaged Beirut during the Lebanese civil ....
How Memory Box Directors Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige Mined Their Own Past Ben Croll, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail When directors Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige uncovered a trove of photographs, journals and audio recordings they had made while growing up in Beirut of the 1980s, they knew these personal archives would fuel their next film. Acclaimed artists and documentarians, the creative duo opted to develop these archives into a narrative feature that tells the story of two generations of mothers and daughters. Set in present-day Canada and 1980s Lebanon, Berlin competition title “Memory Box” focuses on an adolescent girl who stumbles upon her mother’s own personal archives and through them discovers her mother at a wholly different age. ....
A warm, dense tale about women. TWITTER Lebanese filmmakers Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige explore the importance of personal and historical memory in a drama bouncing between Montreal and Beirut. The tragedy of the Lebanese civil war extends far beyond the 1980s and into the third generation of a family resettled in Canada in the affecting drama Memory Box. It marks the first film in nine years from the award-winning team Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, whose work has ranged freely over feature films, docs, installations and performance art. Though Memory Box shows the sophisticated modernity of their artistic approach, it is also one of the most accessible of their films, thanks to a winning cast of fine actresses and an engrossing back-and-forth timeline that jumps from wartime Beirut under the bombs to the staid tranquility of modern-day Montreal. It bows in competition in Berlin, where the directors’ intelligent probing into our percept ....
film profile], shown in the 2021 Berlinale s main competition, girls just wanna have fun and dig up their mothers secrets, of course – here bundled up rather neatly into a package that comes by post one day and, as observed by the grumpy grandmother, “would spoil Christmas”. Christmas in Montreal, that is, as that s where Alex s ( Paloma Vauthier) family lives now, following their escape from war-torn Beirut ages ago. (The article continues below - Commercial information) Grandma might be right, as it hasn t necessarily been a smooth uprooting: she still refuses to speak French on a daily basis, and Alex s mother, Maia ( ....