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The movie is a little dull, though.
Part of the film is a crackerjack courtroom drama.
Which is fine for a newspaper editorial.
Whats that inciting insult?
(Tony plainly reveres the assassinated militia leader and president Bashir Gemayel.)
Whereupon Yasser calls him an asshole.
(After more than a decade in Beirut, he still lives in a refugee area.)
(That history is schematic, too but fun.)
A secular Lebanese Muslim, Doueiri wrote the script with his now-ex-wife, the Lebanese Christian Joelle Touma.
These days, Doueiri lives in Paris, which is safer.
But at least his native country has madeThe Insultits official candidate for the Oscar, which suggests two things.
The second is that it knows the Academy will, too.
