
Filmed over 5 years, A Syrian Love Story charts an incredible odyssey to political freedom. For Raghda and Amer, it is a journey of hope, dreams and despair: for the revolution, their homeland and each other.... (Full plot summary below)
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Filmed over 5 years, A Syrian Love Story charts an incredible odyssey to political freedom. For Raghda and Amer, it is a journey of hope, dreams and despair: for the revolution, their homeland and each other.
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| GuardianPeter BradshawThis is about love, but it could as well be called A Syrian Rage Story or A Syrian Despair Story. |
| Radio TimesDavid ParkinsonProviding an intimate insight into the realities behind the headlines, this provocative and compassionate study is both timely and essential viewing. |
| Film InquiryBecky KuklaA Syrian Love Story aims to put names and faces to the problems in Syria, making the film personal and deeply emotional. It succeeds, in every way. |
| Independent (UK)Geoffrey MacnabShot over five years, it became a heartbreaking portrait of a marriage unravelling. |
| Times (UK)Wendy IdeSean McAllister's intimate, achingly poignant documentary couldn't be more timely. |
| London Evening StandardCharlotte O'SullivanAs in all the best movies, you can't see the twists coming. And there are an awful lots of twists. |
| Time OutTrevor JohnstonThis intimate, essential doc captures the experiences of a single family battered by truly daunting circumstances. |
| Little White LiesDavid JenkinsRevealing on the totalitarian horrors of the Assad regime, but sometimes uncomfortable to watch. |
| User ReviewCharliendezi HThis story is told through the experiences of every member of a Syrian family-not so different views & feelings of any US family. It begins in Syria before The Revolution when there was hope until present time after President Assad has murdered over 400,000 of his own citizens. Your heart won't forget this story & your feelings about Syrian refugees will make you want to do more to help. Even the BBC journalist lands in a Syrian Jail. Raw, real & nothing like you expect. Thank you Sean McAllister for giving so much of your own heart in making this. I hope he follows up to see how everyone does. GREAT. WOW. |
| User ReviewRichard BAs Good (And Bad) As It Gets This is remarkable documentary that focuses on a Syrian-Palestianian couple through 5 years of the Syrian nightmare, and how their relationship is destroyed by it. It is sad, unpredictable and informative at a human level like few other documentaries. Sean McAllister focuses his attention on the Alawite wife, a woman of no mean courage, whose commitment to Syrian democracy costs her freedom, marriage and even her children. The film opens with her arrested the year before the 'revolution', jailed for writing a scathing attack on the Assad regime. Her Palestinian husband pines for her. Then McAllister is arrested by the regime after the 'revolution' breaks out, and jails him for 5 days. When he is let out, so is she. But they can no longer stay in Syria, and are forced to de-camp to Lebanon. What happens next will amaze you, it is so brutal and disturbing. Despite having zero love for the Syrians, nor a great deal of hope for Arab democracy (an oxymoron?), this is a devastating human story that would evoke pity from a rock. It is beautifully made and presented. If you want to stick your head in the sand fine with me. This is top drawer documentary making, and your heart will go out to these people. The Syrian crisis is humanised and it hurts. |