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kid sues parents in angry tale of Beirut child poverty

For all its occasional sentimentality, this film is about the link between poverty and anger. It's a much angrier, tougher - and sometimes funnier - film than you might imagine from its cloying opening premise. Zain (Zain Alrafeea) is a 12-year-old boy in Beirut, deeply embittered by his poverty, by his parents' failure to protect him from it and by the desperate and humiliatingly ineffective accommodations they have made to get money. They have effectively sold his beloved 11-year-old sister Samar (Cedra Izam) in marriage to their landlord's creepy son - an arrangement that is to have a tragic outcome. [...]

di Peter Bradshaw, articolo completo (3597 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Guardian 18 maggio 2018