YaraGood films have a feel about them—not a feeling of “good” or “bad,” but rather exude a tactile sensation, almost as if the film world was a physical presence in the room with you, one you can touch, smell or taste. Abbas Fahdel’s Yara has this quality, and its feel is that of a fresh breeze.Yara is the French-Iraqi director’s follow-up to his widely praised Homeland: Iraq Year Zero (2015), and seems to have been made in response to or even recuperation from that harrowing and expansive ground-level documentary. For Yara’s story is basic, its form primal: It tells of the daily life of teenaged beauty Yara (Michelle Wehbe), who lives alone with her aging grandmother in an old house clinging the mountainside of Lebanon’s Kadisha Valley. She sleeps, does laundry, and chats with her grandmother, as well as with the few men who stop by,...
- 8/10/2018
- MUBI
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