The Razor’s Edge
Asian Premiere
Jocelyne Saab France, Lebanon 1985 102 min PG13 (Some Mature Content and Violence)
A teenager wanders Beirut dreaming of love and life. War has ravaged the city but also sparks her unlikely bond with an older artist.
15-year-old Samar is a refugee in Beirut, roaming its streets surrounded but unfazed by the reality of war. Defiantly carrying dreams of love and freedom, her curiosity and imagination stand in contrast with the city’s ruins, fighters and children playing at soldiers. By chance or prescience, she meets Karim, an older man painting in a grand pink house, and forms an unusual but tender connection that threatens to fall apart with this fraught world.
Filmed during Lebanon’s long civil war, The Razor’s Edge deftly weaves stark documentary footage with lush imagery in a meditation on memory and place. Taking bold leaps into the poetic and theatrical, it asks what is left for art and desire to do in absurd and horrific times.
Synopsis Writer: Godwin Koay
29 Nov, Sat 7:30PM / 102 min
Oldham Theatre
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The Razor's Edge
غزل البنات
Jocelyne Saab
France, Lebanon
1985
Arabic, French
English
102 min
PG13 (Some Mature Content and Violence)
Asian Premiere
Jocelyne Saab
Jocelyne Saab was a pioneering Lebanese filmmaker, artist and journalist whose career spanned almost 50 years. She is known for her unique perspective documenting struggles for liberation in Palestine and beyond. The Razor’s Edge, her first fiction feature, was selected for the 1985 Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes and has been lovingly restored.
Jacques Weber,
Hala Bassam,
Juliet Berto,
Ali Diab,
Denise Filatriault
Aleph Production,
Balcon Production,
Cinévidéo
