The read
Critics rate it 24 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 83% of the 4,722 2020s comedy movies in this catalog. It runs a compact 1h 30m.
Synopsis
In the fifties, young Alice leaves her natal Swiss mountains for the sunny and vibrant shores of Beirut. She falls madly in love with Joseph, a quirky astrophysicist intent on sending the first Lebanese national into space. Alice quickly fits in among his relatives, but after years of bliss, the civil war threatens their Garden of Eden.
Ratings
IMDb6.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes91%
Critics rate it 24 points higher than audiences do.
44 audience votes
Key crew
- Chloé MazloScreenplay
- Yacine BaddayScreenplay
- Chloé MazloDirector
- Bachar KhaliféOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Alba RohrwacherAlice Kamar
- Wajdi MouawadJoseph Kamar
- Isabelle ZighondiMona Kamar
- Mariah TannouryMimi
- Jade BreidiTony
- Odette MakhloufAmal Kamar
- Hany TambaGeorges Kamar
- Ziad JalladSelim
- John ChelhotFady
- Greta ZighondiHoda
- Chloé ZighondiNada
- Charbel KamelWalid
