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- Methodically slow and sometimes seeming as lost as its protagonist, The Sea Ahead engrosses and alienates in turn, its mournfully beautiful portrait of Beirut as a gray and moribund city driven by a story that’s sometimes needlessly impenetrable.
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The Sea Ahead is a 2021 Lebanese film directed and written by Ely Dagher. Starring Manal Issa, Roger Azar, Yara Abi Haidar, Rabih Al Zaher, Fadi Abi Samra and Joseph Sassine. The film had its world premiere at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival [2] in July 2021.
A young woman makes her way back home to her parents’ house in the middle of the night leaving a bad experience behind. Haunting pressures to fit back into the family dynamics as well as ...
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- Manal Issa
- Ely Dagher
- Drama
Jul 13, 2021 · The Sea Ahead is at its best when it waxes symphonic about Beirut, taking us on tours of the city tinged with Jana’s unplaceable, implacable unhappiness. A particularly striking shot that comes late in the film, framing Jana standing at the edge of an empty pool with seemingly the entire city in its drab immensity splayed out in the distant ...
Jul 22, 2021 · The Sea Ahead. by Kaleem Aftab. 22/07/2021 - CANNES 2021: The much anticipated feature debut from Short Palme d'Or winner Ely Dagher berths at the Directors' Fortnight. A feature film debut from a Short Film Palme d'Or winner is always hotly anticipated.
Dec 8, 2021 · While the film works beautifully as a snapshot of the city’s psyche, it is most effective in evoking Jana’s depression. This is an impressive first feature from Ely Dagher, who won the Cannes Palme...
Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com. Dagher’s film eerily plays like an immediate time capsule, an automatic period piece considering the drastic effects of...
Jul 29, 2022 · For his directorial debut, The Sea Ahead, Ely Dagher expands on the themes evident in his earlier short films, including the 2015 Palme d’Or winning short Waves ’98, where a sense of isolation and alienation are the pervasive sentiments dictating his characters’ experiences in Beirut.
