A Civilized People

Year: 1999

Runtime: 97 mins

Language: French

Director: Randa Chahal Sabbag

DramaComedy

Lebanese director Randa Chahal Sabbag offers a bleak war drama exposing the absurd brutality of Beirut’s 1980s urban fighting. It opens with kittens blown apart and then follows naïve country girl Bernadette (Nada Ghosn), hired as a maid in an abandoned mansion. She befriends veteran cleaner Therese (Renee Dick) and, at a cemetery, meets a rakish Arab militiaman, falling in love amid the chaos.

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