A poetic documentary that puts a feisty Beiruti grandmother at the center of brave film exercises designed to commemorate her many worlds before they are erased by the passage of time and her eventual death. With great intimacy, the film documents the larger-than-life character Teta Fatima as she struggles to cope with the silence of her once-buzzing house and imagines what awaits her beyond death. Meanwhile, the features of her beloved violinist husband (deceased 20 years) m... (Full plot summary below)
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A poetic documentary that puts a feisty Beiruti grandmother at the center of brave film exercises designed to commemorate her many worlds before they are erased by the passage of time and her eventual death. With great intimacy, the film documents the larger-than-life character Teta Fatima as she struggles to cope with the silence of her once-buzzing house and imagines what awaits her beyond death. Meanwhile, the features of her beloved violinist husband (deceased 20 years) manifest through the face of their filmmaker grandson while his previously unpublished violin improvisations weave through her world and that of the film. It brings together grandfather, grandmother and grandson in a magic-realist documentary that aims to defy a past death and a future one.
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| The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisWarmhearted and defiantly unsentimental, Grandma, a Thousand Times gains lightness from Teta's tart observations. |
| PopMattersCynthia FuchsTeta, Alf Marra is a loving portrait of Teta's aging process, at once funny and reverent, amiable and acute. |
| Film Journal InternationalDoris ToumarkineCharming, short tribute to Lebanese filmmaker's beloved Beirut grandmother, her memories and deep-rooted values is more home movie than big-screen-worthy, but will warm up any screen. |
| Slant MagazineChuck BowenA delightfully inventive valentine to his 83-year-old Lebanese grandmother, Mahmoud Kaabour's Grandma, a Thousand Times tenderly deconstructs the family-portrait genre, investing all manner of postmodernist distancing devices with emotional resonance. |
| Village VoiceAaron HillisShe might not be our kin, but filmmaker Mahmoud Kaabour's anecdotal, warm-humored tribute to his grandmother - and, to a limited extent, to her cultural heritage - taps into the universal desire to hang onto loved ones in their waning years. |
| User ReviewYousif BA beautiful heartwarming film, with abundant production value. A friendly reminder of how low budget everyday films are among the most emotional and artistic movies out there. I may be biased given this movie was shot in my home country... |
