THE LAST MAN - The First Lebanese Vampire Movie
by Andre Soares
Via The [Beirut] Daily Star: "Somewhere in the sea wall separating Beirut from the Mediterranean, sewerage pipes protrude. They disgorge the city’s waste into the sea as the wintertime tide washes around them, smashing the invisible filth against the base of the city before disseminating it elsewhere. Passionate, disembodied notes sound from a piano.
"It’s with this opening shot - unconventional, enigmatic, laden with possible meaning — that Ghassan Salhab commences The Last Man (Atlal, or "Ruins," in Arabic), which had its regional premier at the Ayam Beirut al-Cinemaiyya [Cinema Days of Beirut] film festival this week."
Jim Quilty’s article describes The Last Man as the "first Lebanese vampire movie."
More on Cinema Days of Beirut on the BBC.
From Oct. 4-11, Beirut will host another film festival, appropriately named the Beirut Film Festival. The eight films in competition at the festival hail from West Asian and North African Muslim countries. Additionally, the Beirut festival will present a Brazilian cinema retrospective and a sidebar dedicated to films promoting human rights.
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