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Aug 4, 2022 · There’s a moment in “Memory Box” when Alex (Paloma Vauthier), a Lebanese teenager in Montreal, finds a series of old photos of her mother, Maia, walking through the streets of Beirut as a girl.
- Devika Girish
- Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige
Vibrantly filmed and finely detailed, Memory Box is an engaging depiction of one woman's reckoning with her past. Read Critics Reviews
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- Drama
- Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige
Aug 5, 2022 · Set between present-day Montreal and 1980s Beirut, “Memory Box” actualizes a treasure trove of unprocessed trauma in the form of a mysterious box of letters, scrapbooks, and tapes.
- Jude Dry
Mar 1, 2021 · Mar 1, 2021 3:45am PT. ‘Memory Box’ Review: A Collection of Family Artifacts Spark Links to the Past. Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige deliver a beautifully poignant intergenerational...
Mar 1, 2021 · Lebanese filmmakers Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige explore the importance of personal and historical memory in 'Memory Box', a drama bouncing between Montreal and...
Aug 5, 2022 · Maia refuses to open the box or confront its memories, but Alex secretly begins diving into it. Between fantasy and reality, Alex enters the world of her mother’s tumultuous, passionate adolescence during the Lebanese civil war, unlocking mysteries of a hidden past.
Jan 21, 2022 · Made by the Lebanese artist-filmmakers, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige (a husband and wife team), it’s an intergenerational drama split between Beirut during the Eighties (the height of the Lebanese Civil War) and present day Canada.
