Tango of Yearning

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Tango of Yearning, is a 1998 Lebanese movie, directed by Mohamed Soueid. with a runtime of 70 minutes.

Overview

Tango of Yearning is a 1998 Lebanese experimental documentary by filmmaker Mohamed Soueid, and the first installment of an autobiographical trilogy on post-civil-war Lebanon, followed by Nightfall (2000) and Civil War (2002). Taking its title from the classic ballad Tango of Hope by Nur al-Huda, the film draws on Soueid's personal experience as a news videographer during the war and his time at the public broadcaster TéléLiban. Assembling archival audiovisual fragments into a non-linear meditation, the film is a poetic elegy for Lebanese cinema, Beirut's vanished movie theaters, and a city in radical transformation. Soueid — a central figure in Lebanon's experimental video documentary movement — delivers one of his most personal and enduring works.

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