Good Morning

DIRECTOR

Bahij Hojeij

RUN TIME

85 Minutes

LANGUAGE

Arabic

YEAR

2019

Country

Lebanon

English Subtitles

Yes

Genre

Black Comedy, Drama, Feature

Cast

Gabriel Yammine, Adel Chahine, Rodrigue Sleiman,

Classification

Restricted to persons aged 15 and over unless accompanied by an adult

Synopsis

Each day, a formal General and an Army Doctor meet at a café, and sit by a corner bay window overlooking Beirut life. They meet to play crosswords to preserve their memory and fight against oblivion. A young journalist who has a crush on the young waitress is also a frequent visitor. The film progresses through 16 sequences/days. In each one, the two men’s thoughts in the context of the chaos that surrounds the region, are revealed.

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