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		<title>UNDER THE BOMBS</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:07:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Edwards</dc:creator>
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Directed by: Philippe Aractingi

Written by: Michel Léviant, Philippe Aractingi

Starring: Bshara Atallah, Bshara Atallay, Rawia Elchab, Nada Abou Farhat, Georges Khabbaz

Distributed by: Artificial Eye

Film will be released in the U.K. on March 21st 2008

Review by Michael Edwards

[rating: 4.5]

This is a truly visceral film, I can't think of a better way to put it. Often crude in its devices and occasionally a little aggressive in getting it's points across, it nonetheless stands as a poignant monument to a conflict in which the filmmaker had a personal insight and a desperate need to express. Writer and director Philippe Aractingi is from Beirut and Under the Bombs is being billed as his 'angry reaction' to Israeli invasion of Lebanon on July 12th 2006. In fact this is probably not just a piece of media hype, when a film begins shooting a mere ten days after the start of the conflict it takes as it's setting - you know it's a gut response.

The tale centres around Zeina (Nada Abou Farhat), a resident of Dubai who, in the midst of a divorce, sent her son to stay with her sister in Southern Lebanon. Once the fighting breaks out she panics and goes in a desperate search ...]]></description>
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