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A movie which Rutvica insisted we should see
\nand since we had spend all our time in Oxford talking
\nshe suggested to take her laptop on the bus to London
\nand as the green English landscape passed by us
\nwe were absorbed in the poetry,
\nthe dazzling, sharp and beautiful verse (!),
\nthe pounding rhythm of the lyrics, images and music
\nof this gem, this song of love and politics.<\/p>\n
Words from the director, Sally Potter:
\n“I began by writing an argument between two lovers,
\none a man from the Middle East (the Lebanon), the
\nother a woman from the West (an Irish-American) at a
\npoint where their love affair has become an explosive
\nwar-zone, with the differences in their backgrounds
\nstarting to cast a long shadow over their intimacy.
\nHe has decided to end the affair, for he finds he can
\nno longer tolerate the imbalance of worldly power in
\ntheir relationship; nor the challenge that the affair
\nposes to his identity. His belief in God, and in the
\nworld he left behind, begins to surface once more,
\nand now seems a higher calling than the call of love
\nand sex. All that first attracted him to this blonde
\nAmerican professional woman now reminds him only
\nof his humiliation and loss.<\/p>\n
He pushes her away at the very moment that her
\nmarriage seems to have broken down irretrievably,
\nincreasing her sense of isolation. For the first time in
\ntheir relationship he seems to have all the power in his
\nhands – the power to say ‘no’. But as he rejects her,
\nthe deeper reasons for his anger and anguish gradually
\nemerge; the pain and humiliation he experiences every
\nday as a man from the Middle East living in the West.<\/p>\n
These two characters, each trying to listen to the other,
\nand each wanting to be heard, formed the basis of the
\nstory, which developed to include other characters, each
\nof whom is wrestling with his or her beliefs; whether
\nreligious, political, or – in the case of the cleaner who
\nis a sort of one woman comic Greek chorus – about
\nthe true nature of dirt.”<\/p>\n
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