Director Oualid Mouaness’ enriching use of images and sensitivity to narrative balance outweigh his unexceptional dialogue in “1982.” Even with such a caveat, his debut feature succeeds in accessin…
Despite the deteriorating situation in southern Lebanon, the staff of an Anglophone school on the Beirut outskirts do their best to get the pupils through their final day of exams. Yasmine arrives already preoccupied by family issues including the announcement by her brother Georges that he’s leaving to join a militia in the south. For Yasmine, the way to survive is to keep your head down and push away any talk of politics, especially when it involves conflict.
For members of her fifth-grade class, things are fraught with a different kind of tension: Wissam has a secret crush on Joanna , but on top of the usual hesitations of any 10-year-old boy expressing love, there’s the near impossibility of seeing her outside of school since they live in opposite sides of Beirut, separated by checkpoints.
This balanced interplay is one of the film’s strong suits, helping to compensate for unexceptional dialog that threatens to derail Mouaness’ goal of making his film — his story — different from countless other children-in-wartime movies. Luckily, the director’s pictorial sense offsets script problems, and together with DP Brian Rigney Hubbard he’s crafted a visually absorbing means of narrating a single day.
Audiences will be divided over the animated ending, which can be read either as a testament to the strength of a child’s imagination to pull him through trauma, or a misjudged attempt to leave viewers with a ray of hope as the bombings come ever closer.Production : A Tricycle Logic, Abbout Prods., Mad Dog Films, Barentsfilm, Boo Pictures, Soapbox Films prod. Producers: Oualid Mouaness, Georges Schoucair, Myriam Sassine, Alix Madigan-Yorkin, Christopher Tricarico. Co-producers: Louis Nader, Ingrid Lill Høgtun. Executive producers: Rodney Adler, Jessie Creel, Anderson Hinsch, Candice Abela-Mikati, Fouad Mikati, Jorge Takla, Christopher Alender, David A. Smith.: Director, screenplay: Oualid Mouaness. Camera : Brian Rigney Hubbard.
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