Do You Love Me
OPENS AT METROGRAPH July 10
METROGRAPH IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE RUN OF Do You Love Me
STARTING July 10.
A cinematic paean to Beirut and a journey into the collective audiovisual memory of Lebanon and its people, making use of film and television clips, home movies, and photographs drawn from private and public archives, materials spanning some 70 years of turbulent history. (Among the film’s parade of faces is that of Jocelyne Saab, visiting the wreckage of her former home, reduced to rubble in a 1982 Israeli air strike.) The glorious product of reclamation and meticulous research, and an urgent dispatch from an embattled nation, Do You Love Me proffers a people’s history that eschews linear chronology to offer instead a rich rhyming network of generation-crossing associations. A film of intimacy and alienation, of destruction and renewal, of grief and resilience.
An Icarus Films release.
Accompanying the run of Do You Love Me, Metrograph presents the series Jocelyne Saab: Letters from Lebanon, running from July 10 to July 12. Titles include new restorations of The Beirut Trilogy (Beirut, Never Again, Letter from Beirut, Beirut My City), Lebanon in Turmoil preceded by South Lebanon, History of a Besieged Village, Once Upon a Time in Beirut, and The Razor’s Edge preceded by Lebanese, Hostage of Their City.