Solitaire

Solitaire (2017)

محبس

Therese, the mayor's wife in a Lebanese village, joyfully prepares for an overnight visit of her daughter's suitor and his parents. She excitedly shares the happy news of the engagement with pictures of her beloved brother who was killed by a Syrian bomb 20 years ago and is still bizarrely present in every corner of her house. Only when the long-awaited guests are at her doorstep, she discovers they are Syrian; this engagement will only happen over Therese's dead body!

Date of release
2017-03-01
TMDB
7.1 / 10 (9)
Runtime
1h 32m
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Director
Sophie Boutros

Casting

Interesting facts

Mahbas (Solitaire) is a Lebanese romantic, comedy movie directed by Sophie Boutros and produced by Nadia Eliewat; Both Boutros and Eliewat are the film writers. The film premiered in the Dubai International Film Festival in 2016 and released in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, UAE, Kuwait, and Palestine in 2017. The film revolves around the story of a Lebanese mother who has developed a deep hatred towards Syrians as she lost her brother to a tragic incident during the Lebanese-Syrian war. The memory of her brother's death still fresh, keeps her hatred ongoing to the point that when she finds out that her daughter's suitor and his family are Syrians, she is determined to stop the engagement.

Production

The film writers began their project in 2013. Initially, Boutros and Eliewat planned on working on a short film until they realised the amount of content they had could possibly make a lengthy film. Louay Khraish developed the story with Boutros and Eliewat during the early development stage.

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