I have to admit, sociopolitical/historic documentaries are among my favorite categories of films, as I enjoy the knowledge they communicate. In that fashion, and since “A Feeling Greater Than Love” is my first Lebanese film and winner of the Fipresci critics prize at the Berlinale Forum, I was very excited to watch it.
The documentary focuses in two, relatively unknown aspects of the Lebanese labor movement that took place in the early 70’s, both of which were somewhat forgotten due to the civil war: the protest at a tobacco farm in southern Lebanon and the strike at a chocolate factory in Beirut. As Mary Jirmanus Saba includes interviews with the people involved, she also makes a comparison with the present, while posing a number of crucial questions regarding the movement.
What will strike the spectator of the documentary, from the beginning, is the amount of footage Saba managed to collect and include.
The documentary focuses in two, relatively unknown aspects of the Lebanese labor movement that took place in the early 70’s, both of which were somewhat forgotten due to the civil war: the protest at a tobacco farm in southern Lebanon and the strike at a chocolate factory in Beirut. As Mary Jirmanus Saba includes interviews with the people involved, she also makes a comparison with the present, while posing a number of crucial questions regarding the movement.
What will strike the spectator of the documentary, from the beginning, is the amount of footage Saba managed to collect and include.
- 2/5/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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