{"id":200949,"date":"2021-03-13T00:31:33","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T21:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-miguels-war-film-review-variety\/"},"modified":"2021-03-13T00:31:33","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T21:31:33","slug":"watch-miguels-war-film-review-variety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-miguels-war-film-review-variety\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Miguel&#8217;s War&#8217;: Film Review &#8211; Variety"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a41494d33ceb\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a41494d33ceb\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-miguels-war-film-review-variety\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Miguels_War_Film_Review_%E2%80%93_Variety%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Miguel&#8217;s War&#8217;: Film Review &#8211; Variety&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-miguels-war-film-review-variety\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Miguels_War_Film_Review_%E2%80%93_Variety%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Miguel&#8217;s War&#8217;: Film Review &#8211; Variety&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Miguels_War_Film_Review_%E2%80%93_Variety%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Miguel&#8217;s War&#8217;: Film Review &#8211; Variety&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Miguels_War_Film_Review_%E2%80%93_Variety%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Miguel&#8217;s War&#8217;: Film Review &#8211; Variety&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        Eliane Raheb\u2019s documentaries stress that stories are never black and white, and what people say may be an unconscious reflection of what they want their interlocutor to believe rather than what is factually true. With \u201cMiguel\u2019s War\u201d she goes one step further, diving headfirst into the role of prodding psychologist to coax out a heap of repression from her subject, a gay Lebanese man self-exiled in Spain who\u2019s spent his adult life keeping everything buried. For Raheb, individual trauma doesn\u2019t stand alone; by focusing on one person, the breadth of Lebanon\u2019s troubled collective experience is uncovered, and with humor, honesty and a common humanity it can be brought into the open for potential healing.<\/p>\n<p>In \u201cThose Who Remain,\u201d the director was heard but not really seen; in \u201cMiguel\u2019s War\u201d she\u2019s very much a part of the action as she takes Michel Jelelaty on a journey through his psyche via a variety of creative means, from simple conversations to casting calls in which actors play his parents\u2019 roles. Then with deliciously biting animated collages by Fadi El Samra she adds surreal layers that help expand Jelelaty\u2019s experiences into something outwardly abstract yet carrying resonances far beyond the protagonist\u2019s personal story. While the gay angle makes the film attractive to a reliably receptive audience, its insights into Lebanon\u2019s tortured history offer an equally marketable <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roach that should expand viewership.<\/p>\n<p>Only toward the end do we learn that Raheb met Jelelaty by chance, through his work as a translator in Spain, where he\u2019s lived since 1994. When he emigrated he cast aside his real name, choosing to be called Miguel Alonso (hence \u201cMiguel\u2019s War\u201d) in the hopes that a changed identity would help push away both difficult memories of growing up gay in <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a>ly conservative Lebanon and incidents from the Civil War too disturbing for him to willingly revisit. Realizing that Jelelaty\u2019s stubbornly resistant layers were fascinating in themselves but also revealing of shared Lebanese experiences, the director embarked on this complicated journey, assuming the role of tenacious shrink to a sometimes unforthcoming patient.<\/p>\n<p>Jelelaty was born in Beirut in 1963 to a well-off Christian family: His father remains a spectral, mostly silent presence whose unprocessed impact on his son\u2019s psyche probably requires more than one documentary. By contrast, his Syrian mother looms large, her superior air as a daughter of Damascus creating a jarring dissonance in her son\u2019s head given how his teachers drove home the idea that Syrians in Lebanon were dangerous outsiders (conveyed through hilarious animation). He was 12 when the Civil War literally exploded his life, which became a jumble of inferiority complexes, forbidden desire and juvenile religious fanaticism manifested in self-mortification and an obsession with Christological images.<\/p>\n<p>The film is helpfully divided into chapters, but Raheb is more aware than most that life doesn\u2019t fit so neatly into sections, and themes and storylines regularly bleed into each other. When he was of age, Jelelaty fought with the Lebanese Forces Christian militia; it\u2019s a period he\u2019s suppressed, though that\u2019s likely too simplistic a diagnosis since his claims of not remembering don\u2019t always ring true. Once in Spain he discarded considerable emotional baggage and embraced a more fully realized life, yet when he says he\u2019s happy with himself, few will believe it, especially after admitting he\u2019s never known what it\u2019s like to feel true love for a partner.<\/p>\n<p>Raheb brings him back to Lebanon to confront his war years, challenging the recollections he\u2019s willing to share and refusing to humor his blanket claims of not recalling key incidents. Her persistent yet nonthreatening approach is what keeps him from completely clamming up, and it\u2019s worth considering how her provocations work in tandem with Jelelaty\u2019s friend in Spain, the fabulous Spanish drag queen Rub\u00e9n Cardoso, whose fearless (and very funny) comments and unadorned interrogations disarm multiple barriers. Theatrical yet unable to sing in public despite having a fine operatic voice, Jelelaty is a bundle of contradictions, which of course makes him a perfect subject for Raheb\u2019s generous, nonjudgmental approach.<\/p>\n<p>Animated sequences are conceived as sly commentary, their surrealism helping to wittily underscore analyses, such as a delirious montage of Syrian rockets and penises, giving a Freudian spin to the invasion of Lebanon while also connecting it to Jelelaty\u2019s sexual-humiliation fantasies, which themselves are also tied up with emasculation, religion, the Civil War and the ever-hovering presence of the mother. In other words, Lebanon in a nutshell, accompanied by evocative songs of Feyrouz and Najat Al Saghira.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n  !function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    if (f.fbq) return;\n    n = f.fbq = function() {\n      n.callMethod ?\n          n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n    };\n    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n    n.push = n;\n    n.loaded = !0;\n    n.version = '2.0';\n    n.queue = [];\n    t = b.createElement(e);\n    t.async = !0;\n    t.src = v;\n    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n  }(window, document, 'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '586935388485447');\n  fbq('init', '315552255725686');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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