Is a successful film debut enough at a time when there are at least ten excellent films in the cinemas? You should definitely check Tramontane out if you have any connections with Lebanon, the country that never really recovered from its civil war in the 1980s.
The film is about a young, blind musician, an impressive performance by Barakat Jabbour. Due to a problem with his passport, Rabih discovers that his mother is not actually his mother, and he goes in search of his true identity and the cause of his blindness. The mystery proves hard to unravel. Everyone tells a distorted version of the truth.
Rabih's story illustrates a broader political problem: deliberate historical amnesia. The astonishing lack of agreement about the facts that drove the country to the brink of destruction makes it very difficult to recover from the traumas that people suffered. Or at least, that is our calculated guess. Director Vatche Boulghourjian could have been clearer and more explicit.
> LB, 2016, dir.: Vatche Boulghourjian, act.: Barakat Jabbour, Julia Kasser, 105 min.
> Aventure
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