8) Theeb In a year when questions of authenticity have rung out - TopicsExpress



          

8) Theeb In a year when questions of authenticity have rung out in every cultural quarter, Theeb arrived with little fanfare. It’s a film that strives for a lived-in realness and it achieves this by diving deep into the heart of some of history’s most forgotten figures. Made by first time director Naji Abu Nowar, Theeb is a coming-of-age story set against the vast history of the Ottoman Empire in 1915. The title character is a bedouin boy who is forced to learn of the wider world through the sharp intrusion of war. In another film this would have perhaps meant the start of some grand heroic adventure. Nowar instead keeps things intimate. His desert looms large, the elegant score swells, and we learn instead what it takes to assert an identity of self in an overwhelming landscape. In this small way, Theeb is a triumph. Sadly, it remains to be seen if the film will get a wider release, so you’ll just have to take my word for it. -Loud Noises: Top 10 Films of 2014 -Daniel Reynolds samepageteam/2015/01/09/loud-noises-top-10-films-of-2014/
Posted on: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 17:03:44 +0000

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